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Mathematicians Of The Day
15th May
On this day in 1961, the first computer in Argentina began operating at the University of Buenos Aires. It was a Ferranti Mercury computer called Clementina because it had been programmed to play the song Oh My Darling, Clementine. Cecilia Berdichevsky was one of the mathematicians who worked on it.
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Born:
- 1615: Frans van Schooten Ⓟ
- 1637: Valentin Heins Ⓟ
- 1801: Joseph Raabe Ⓟ
- 1835: Émile Mathieu
- 1857: Hermann Wiener Ⓟ
- 1865: Alice Everett Ⓟ
- 1900: Ida Rhodes Ⓟ
- 1939: Brian Hartley Ⓟ
- 1964: Sijue Wu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1821: John Bonnycastle Ⓟ
- 1907: Anne Bosworth Ⓟ
- 1975: Taira Honda Ⓟ
- 1989: Orymbek Zhautykov Ⓟ
- 1991: Andreas Floer Ⓟ
- 2016: Jacques Neveu Ⓟ
- 2019: Dionisio Gallarati Ⓟ