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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th May
On this day in 1794, the French chemist Lavoisier was tried by a revolutionary tribunal and executed by guillotine. His friend Lagrange commented:
It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years will not suffice to produce its like.
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Born:
- 1859: Johan Ludwig Jensen Ⓟ
- 1866: Mineo Chini
- 1905: Karol Borsuk Ⓟ
- 1905: Winifred Sargent
- 1923: Dionisio Gallarati Ⓟ
Died:
- 1874: Jean-Baptiste Bélanger Ⓟ
- 1900: Thomas Craig Ⓟ
- 1936: Lorna Swain
- 1951: Gilbert Bliss Ⓟ
- 1953: Benjamin Fedorovich Kagan Ⓟ
- 1959: Renato Caccioppoli Ⓟ
- 1960: Henry Whitehead Ⓟ
- 2001: Jaap Seidel Ⓟ
- 2008: Aryeh Dvoretzky Ⓟ
- 2016: Tom Apostol Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Renato Caccioppoli
If you are afraid of something, measure it, and you will realize it is a mere trifle.
