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Mathematicians Of The Day
4th May
On this day in 1935, Albert Einstein, in a letter to the New York Times, wrote:-
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
In the judgement of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.Emmy Noether had died three weeks earlier.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 1733: Jean-Charles de Borda Ⓟ
- 1840: Jakob Rebstein Ⓟ
- 1845: William Clifford Ⓟ
- 1876: Heinrich Jung Ⓟ
- 1888: Raymond Butchart Ⓟ
- 1916: Elliott Montroll Ⓟ
- 1918: George Carrier Ⓟ
Died:
- 1615: Adriaan van Roomen Ⓟ
- 1677: Isaac Barrow Ⓟ
- 1768: Charles-Étienne Camus Ⓟ
- 1859: Joseph Gergonne Ⓟ
- 1936: Alfred Dixon Ⓟ
- 1961: Herbert Turnbull Ⓟ
- 1974: Otton Nikodym Ⓟ
- 1974: Marceli Stark Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Isaac Barrow
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
