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Mathematicians Of The Day

1st June

Born:

• 1796: Sadi Carnot (poster)
• 1815: Osip Somov (poster)
• 1849: Gustav von Escherich
• 1851: Edwin Elliott (poster)
• 1868: Annie Fitch MacKinnon (poster)
• 1884: Eduard Helly (poster)
• 1899: Edward Titchmarsh (poster)
• 1943: Edmund Robertson

Died:

• 1867: Karl von Staudt (poster)
• 1941: Kurt Hensel (poster)
• 1947: David Enskog (poster)
• 1974: Haroutune Dadourian (poster)
• 1989: Edward McShane (poster)
• 1996: Gaetano Fichera (poster)
• 1998: Mikhail Moiseevich Lesokhin (poster)
• 1998: Jerzy Łoś
• 2006: Shokichi Iyanaga (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Sadi Carnot

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature.