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Mathematicians Of The Day
5th June
On this day in 1833 Ada Lovelace first met Charles Babbage at the home of Mary Somerville.
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Born:
- 1814: Pierre Wantzel
- 1819: John Couch Adams Ⓟ
- 1883: John Maynard Keynes Ⓟ
- 1904: George McVittie Ⓟ
- 1907: Rudolf Peierls Ⓟ
- 1926: Claude Berge Ⓟ
- 1930: Gregory Maxwell Kelly Ⓟ
Died:
- 1716: Roger Cotes Ⓟ
- 1898: Percival Frost Ⓟ
- 1940: Augustus Love Ⓟ
- 1964: Tadashi Nakayama Ⓟ
- 1985: Sree Pillai Ⓟ
- 1986: Helmut Grunsky Ⓟ
- 2009: Rajeev Motwani Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Roger Cotes
If he had lived we would have known something.
