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.

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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.
De numeris complexis, qui radicibus unitatis et numeris integris realibus constant 1847