1st May

Mathematicians Of The Day

1st May

On this day in 1631, Fermat received the degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University of Orleans. He practised law, but did mathematics.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2011.

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Born:

1793: Jakob Kulik Ⓟ
1825: Johann Balmer Ⓟ
1863: Luigi Berzolari Ⓟ
1891: Louis Melville Milne-Thomson Ⓟ
1908: Morris Kline Ⓟ
1908: Hans Schubert Ⓟ
1911: Orymbek Zhautykov Ⓟ
1924: Evelyn Boyd Granville Ⓟ
1926: Peter Lax Ⓟ
1942: Jane Wadsworth Ⓟ
1956: Laila Soueif Ⓟ

Died:

1870: Gabriel Lamé Ⓟ
1916: Adolf Weiler Ⓟ
2011: Steven Orszag Ⓟ
2011: J Ernest Wilkins Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Morris Kline

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

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