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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th May
On this day in 1920, Oxford University passed a statute admitting women to degree programmes. Women had been allowed to take examinations at Oxford since 1883.
In 1892 Grace Chisholm took the exam for the Final Honours School in mathematics (as an unofficial candidate) and out-performed all the Oxford students.
On this day in 2018 Google released a Nightingale doodle (a day early).
In 1892 Grace Chisholm took the exam for the Final Honours School in mathematics (as an unofficial candidate) and out-performed all the Oxford students.
On this day in 2018 Google released a Nightingale doodle (a day early).
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1744: Anastácio da Cunha
- 1881: Theodore von Kármán Ⓟ
- 1887: Griffith Evans Ⓟ
- 1902: Edna Kramer Ⓟ
- 1912: Sergei Chernikov Ⓟ
- 1918: Richard Feynman Ⓟ
- 1924: Evgenii B Dynkin Ⓟ
- 1930: Edsger Dijkstra Ⓟ
Died:
- 1610: Matteo Ricci Ⓟ
- 1871: John Herschel Ⓟ
- 1916: Karl Schwarzschild Ⓟ
- 1923: Charles Niven Ⓟ
- 1955: Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov Ⓟ
- 1965: Jason J Nassau Ⓟ
- 1995: Leo Zippin Ⓟ
- 2012: Fritz Ursell Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Richard Feynman
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
