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Mathematicians Of The Day

13th June

Born:

• 1555: Giovanni Magini (poster)
• 1580: Willebrord Snell (poster)
• 1773: Thomas Young (poster)
• 1831: James Clerk Maxwell (poster)
• 1839: James Bolam
• 1871: Ernst Steinitz (poster)
• 1872: Chrystal Macmillan (poster)
• 1876: William Gosset (poster)
• 1883: Neil McArthur
• 1891: Pierre Humbert (poster)
• 1906: Bruno de Finetti (poster)
• 1928: John F Nash (poster)
• 1931: Herbert Wilf
• 1966: Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (poster)

Died:

• 1660: William Oughtred (poster)
• 1882: William Shanks
• 1909: Albin Herzog (poster)
• 1939: Hermann Wiener (poster)
• 1991: Marek Kuczma (poster)
• 1994: John Britton (poster)

Quotation of the day

From James Clerk Maxwell

Ampère was the Newton of Electricity.