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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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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 Ⓟ
- 1937: Herbert Ellsworth Slaught Ⓟ
- 1946: Umberto Puppini Ⓟ
- 1953: Ernst Zermelo Ⓟ
- 1957: Aleksandr Nekrasov Ⓟ
- 1958: Wilhelm Süss Ⓟ
- 1973: Grigore Moisil Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ernst Zermelo
No mathematical error can be demonstrated in my [earlier] proof.
