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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.
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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 Ⓟ
- 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.
