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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.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1984.
See THIS LINK and also THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1984.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1801: Antoine Meyer Ⓟ
- 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 Évariste Galois
Since the beginning of the century, computational procedures have become so complicated that any progress by those means has become impossible, without the elegance which modern mathematicians have brought to bear on their research, and by means of which the spirit comprehends quickly and in one step a great many computations.
It is clear that elegance, so vaunted and so aptly named, can have no other purpose. ...
Go to the roots of these calculations! Group the operations. Classify them according to their complexities rather than their appearances! This, I believe, is the mission of future mathematicians. This is the road on which I am embarking in this work.
