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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)
• 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

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.