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

Welcher aber ... durch die Geometria sein Ding beweist und die gründliche Wahrheit anzeigt, dem soll alle Welt glauben. Denn da ist man gefangen.

Whoever ... proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured

Von menschlicher Proportion

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