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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th May
On this day in 1910, Florence Nightingale was presented with the badge of honour of the Norwegian Red Cross Society. She died a few months later.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1788: Augustin Fresnel Ⓟ
- 1847: Wilhelm Killing Ⓟ
- 1890: Bevan Braithwaite Baker
- 1899: Otakar Boruvka Ⓟ
- 1900: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Ⓟ
- 1904: Edward McShane Ⓟ
- 1953: Peter Borwein Ⓟ
Died:
- 1822: Paolo Ruffini Ⓟ
- 1829: Thomas Young Ⓟ
- 1924: August Gutzmer Ⓟ
- 1933: Duilio Gigli
- 1941: Diederik Korteweg Ⓟ
- 1957: Guido Ascoli Ⓟ
- 1989: Hassler Whitney Ⓟ
- 1992: Kollagunta Ramanathan Ⓟ
- 2003: Ambros Speiser Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Augustin Fresnel
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
