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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th April
On this day in 1831, Sophie Germain wrote a letter to her friend Libri which describes Galois' situation.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1965.
... the death of M. Fourier, have been too much for this student Galois who, in spite of his impertinence, showed signs of a clever disposition. All this has done so much that he has been expelled form École Normale. He is without money ... They say he will go completely mad. I fear this is true.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1965.
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Born:
- 1875: Ugo Amaldi Ⓟ
- 1889: Thomas Lancaster Wren Ⓟ
- 1892: Dmitrii Menshov Ⓟ
- 1901: Bento Caraça Ⓟ
- 1904: Stefan Warschawski Ⓟ
- 1907: Lars Ahlfors Ⓟ
- 1916: Ellis Kolchin Ⓟ
- 1918: Hsien C Wang Ⓟ
- 1928: Mikio Sato Ⓟ
- 1949: Charles Fefferman Ⓟ
Died:
- 1756: Jacques Cassini Ⓟ
- 1803: Louis Arbogast Ⓟ
- 1913: Pieter Hendrik Schoute Ⓟ
- 1943: William Metzler Ⓟ
- 1955: Albert Einstein Ⓟ
- 1961: Abraham Plessner Ⓟ
- 1999: Gian-Carlo Rota Ⓟ
- 2000: Mary Cannell Ⓟ
- 2009: Alberto Dou Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Albert Einstein
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry.
