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Mathematicians Of The Day

2nd April

Born:

• 1618: Francesco Grimaldi (poster)
• 1878: Edward Kasner (poster)
• 1906: Shokichi Iyanaga (poster)
• 1908: Hans Reichardt (poster)
• 1930: Anatolii Asirovich Goldberg (poster)
• 1934: Paul Cohen (poster)

Died:

• 1872: Charles Hughes Terrot (poster)
• 1946: Dougald Mcquistan
• 1986: Thomas Room
• 1995: Hannes Alfvén (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Hannes Alfvén

I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.