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Mathematicians Of The Day
31st May
On this day in 1941, Hugo Steinhaus, who sometimes joined his colleagues in the Scottish Café, contributed the final question to the Scottish Book, only days before the Nazi troops entered the town.
See THIS LINK and also THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK and also THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1861: William Peddie Ⓟ
- 1903: Alan Broadbent Ⓟ
- 1907: Hermann Arthur Jahn Ⓟ
- 1910: Nikolai Vladimirovich Efimov Ⓟ
- 1926: John Kemeny Ⓟ
Died:
- 1832: Évariste Galois Ⓟ
- 1841: George Green
- 1907: Francesco Siacci Ⓟ
- 1931: Eugène Cosserat Ⓟ
- 1991: Robert Schlapp Ⓟ
- 1992: Marian Țarină Ⓟ
- 1998: Michio Suzuki Ⓟ
- 2000: Erich Kähler Ⓟ
- 2008: Detlef Gromoll Ⓟ
- 2019: Margaret Rayner Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Kemeny
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.
