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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th May
On this day in 1861, James Clerk Maxwell exhibited a three-colour photograph of a tartan ribbon before the Royal Institution in London.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1981.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1981.
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Born:
- 1881: Jur Hronec Ⓟ
- 1928: Eric Milner Ⓟ
- 1942: Steve Rallis Ⓟ
Died:
- 1729: Samuel Clarke Ⓟ
- 1765: Alexis Clairaut Ⓟ
- 1913: Heinrich Weber Ⓟ
- 1916: Mary Everest Boole Ⓟ
- 2001: Jacques-Louis Lions Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Mary Everest Boole
The mathematical formulae which some people speak of contemptuously as "dry" are in reality as beautiful as microscopes, or any other well-adjusted and well-finished machinery intended to extend the scope of men's powers; and as for mathematical ideas themselves, they are as grand as any expressed in poetry.
