MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
14th April
On this day in 1855, Sam Loyd's first chess problem was published in the New York Saturday Courier .
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Born:
- 1629: Christiaan Huygens Ⓟ
- 1868: Annie Scott Dill Maunder Ⓟ
- 1917: Nathan Mendelsohn Ⓟ
- 1920: Donald Pack Ⓟ
- 1935: Victor Olunloyo Ⓟ
- 1937: Charles Sims Ⓟ
Died:
- 1833: Charles Whish
- 1935: Emmy Noether Ⓟ
- 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 . . .
