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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th April
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Born:
- 1608: Honoré Fabri Ⓟ
- 1732: David Rittenhouse Ⓟ
- 1903: Marshall Stone Ⓟ
- 1903: Aurel Wintner Ⓟ
- 1928: Elizabeth Fennema Ⓟ
- 1929: François Bruhat Ⓟ
- 1944: Michael Aschbacher Ⓟ
- 1947: David Eisenbud Ⓟ
- 1949: Qamil Haxhibeqiri Ⓟ
Died:
- 1461: Georg Peurbach Ⓟ
- 1913: Julius König Ⓟ
- 1919: Loránd Eötvös Ⓟ
- 1925: Frank Baldwin Ⓟ
- 1992: G de B Robinson Ⓟ
- 2005: Douglas Northcott Ⓟ
- 2008: Graham Higman Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Marshall Stone
For Bourbaki, Poincaré was the devil incarnate. For students of chaos and fractals, Poincaré is of course God on Earth.
