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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 Ⓟ
- 1940: Augustus Love Ⓟ
- 1964: Tadashi Nakayama Ⓟ
- 1985: Sree Pillai Ⓟ
- 1986: Helmut Grunsky Ⓟ
- 2009: Rajeev Motwani Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
