21st May

Mathematicians Of The Day

21st May

On this day in 1683, the Duke of York (later James II) opened the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford: the first public museum in Britain. The building now houses the Museum of the History of Science.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1968.

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Born:

1471: Albrecht Dürer Ⓟ
1792: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Ⓟ
1858: Édouard Goursat Ⓟ
1893: Thomas Arnold Brown
1898: Thomas Cherry Ⓟ
1921: Ferenc Radó Ⓟ
1923: Armand Borel Ⓟ
1958: Curtis McMullen Ⓟ

Died:

1848: Pierre Wantzel
1911: Mina Fleming Ⓟ
1937: Herbert Ellsworth Slaught Ⓟ
1946: Umberto Puppini Ⓟ
1953: Ernst Zermelo Ⓟ
1957: Aleksandr Nekrasov Ⓟ
1958: Wilhelm Süss Ⓟ
1973: Grigore Moisil Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Albrecht Dürer

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art...

Course in the Art of Measurement

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