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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.
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Born:
- 1788: Augustin Fresnel Ⓟ
- 1847: Wilhelm Killing Ⓟ
- 1890: Bevan Braithwaite Baker
- 1899: Otakar Boruvka Ⓟ
- 1900: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Ⓟ
- 1904: Edward McShane Ⓟ
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 Edward McShane
There are in this world optimists who feel that any symbol that starts off with an integral sign must necessarily denote something that will have every property that they should like an integral to possess. This of course is quite annoying to us rigorous mathematicians; what is even more annoying is that by doing so they often come up with the right answer.
