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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th May
On this day in 1979, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat became the first woman full member of the French Academy of Sciences.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1701: William Emerson Ⓟ
- 1832: Rudolf Lipschitz Ⓟ
- 1863: John Charles Fields Ⓟ
- 1875: Beppo Levi Ⓟ
- 1878: Roland Richardson Ⓟ
- 1888: Archie Alexander Ⓟ
- 1917: William Tutte Ⓟ
Died:
- 1761: Thomas Simpson Ⓟ
- 1797: Giovanni Fagnano
- 1887: Johann Rosenhain Ⓟ
- 1893: Eduard Kummer Ⓟ
- 1909: Giovanni Vailati Ⓟ
- 1927: Woolsey Johnson Ⓟ
- 1984: Emilio Baiada Ⓟ
- 2014: Murray Macbeath Ⓟ
- 2021: Wang Yuan Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Eduard Kummer
It is greatly to be lamented that this virtue of the real integers that they can be decomposed into prime factors which are always the same for a given integer does not belong to the complex integers [of arbitrary cyclotomic number fields], for were this the case, the entire theory, which is still labouring under many difficulties, could easily be resolved and brought to a conclusion.
