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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th April
On this day in 1855, Sam Loyd's first chess problem was published in the New York Saturday Courier.
On this day in 2005 Google released a Leonardo doodle (a day early).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1928.
On this day in 2005 Google released a Leonardo doodle (a day early).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1928.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1629: Christiaan Huygens Ⓟ
- 1868: Annie Scott Dill Maunder Ⓟ
- 1917: Nathan Mendelsohn Ⓟ
- 1920: Donald Pack Ⓟ
- 1927: John Amson Ⓟ
- 1935: Victor Olunloyo Ⓟ
- 1937: Charles Sims Ⓟ
Died:
- 1833: Charles Whish
- 1935: Emmy Noether Ⓟ
- 1940: Annie Dale Andrews Ⓟ
- 1948: Clara Bacon Ⓟ
- 1957: Walter Brown
- 1964: Tatiana Alexeyevna Afanassjewa Ⓟ
- 1983: Errett Bishop Ⓟ
- 2005: Saunders Mac Lane Ⓟ
- 2015: Gordon Preston Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Saunders Mac Lane
. . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security . . .
