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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st June
On this day in 2003, Jean-Pierre Serre became the first recipient of the Abel Prize. The ceremony was held at the Abel Monument in Slottsparken, Oslo.
See THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 1796: Sadi Carnot Ⓟ
- 1815: Osip Somov Ⓟ
- 1849: Gustav von Escherich Ⓟ
- 1851: Edwin Elliott Ⓟ
- 1868: Annie Fitch MacKinnon Ⓟ
- 1884: Eduard Helly Ⓟ
- 1899: Edward Titchmarsh Ⓟ
- 1943: Edmund Robertson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1864: Joaquim Gomes de Souza Ⓟ
- 1867: Karl von Staudt Ⓟ
- 1941: Kurt Hensel Ⓟ
- 1947: David Enskog Ⓟ
- 1974: Haroutune Dadourian Ⓟ
- 1989: Edward McShane Ⓟ
- 1996: Gaetano Fichera Ⓟ
- 1998: Mikhail Moiseevich Lesokhin Ⓟ
- 1998: Jerzy Łoś Ⓟ
- 2006: Shokichi Iyanaga Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edward Titchmarsh
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
