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Mathematicians Of The Day

14th June

Born:

• 1444: Nilakantha
• 1736: Charles Augustin Coulomb (poster)
• 1796: Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman (poster)
• 1856: Andrei Andreyevich Markov (poster)
• 1860: Frank Carey (poster)
• 1868: Gilbert Walker (poster)
• 1903: Alonzo Church (poster)
• 1910: Fritz John (poster)
• 1913: Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen (poster)
• 1917: Atle Selberg (poster)
• 1935: Louise Szmir Hay (poster)

Died:

• 1746: Colin Maclaurin (poster)
• 1886: Jules Hoüel (poster)
• 1946: Federigo Enriques (poster)
• 1957: Theodoros Varopoulos
• 1969: Ottó Varga (poster)
• 2008: Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskii (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Alonzo Church

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.