MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
7th June
On this day in 1886, Winifred Edgerton became the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1711: François Jacquier Ⓟ
- 1863: Edward Van Vleck Ⓟ
- 1877: Charles Glover Barkla Ⓟ
- 1924: Donald Davies Ⓟ
- 1926: John Shepherdson Ⓟ
- 1956: János Kollár Ⓟ
Died:
- 1624: Giuseppe Biancani Ⓟ
- 1843: Alexis Bouvard Ⓟ
- 1847: Adolph Göpel
- 1907: Edward Routh Ⓟ
- 1937: James Macdonald
- 1954: Alan Turing Ⓟ
- 2004: Joseph Doob Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Joseph Doob
If you open a mathematics paper at random, on the pair of pages before you, you will find a mistake.
