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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th June
On this day in 1870, Benjamin Peirce sent a letter of introduction for his son to August De Morgan,
I presume upon the unseen brotherhood of science to introduce to you my son Charles S Peirce Esq. who is a devoted student of Logic and I think that he has original thoughts which you may regard as deserving your consideration. He carries with him a memoir which he has written upon one of the subjects of your own learned investigations ...The postage stamp designed by one of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1949.
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Born:
- 1714: César-François Cassini de Thury Ⓟ
- 1898: Maurits Escher Ⓟ
- 1903: William Hodge Ⓟ
- 1906: Tom Cowling Ⓟ
- 1906: Samuel Wilks Ⓟ
- 1928: Iain Adamson Ⓟ
- 1939: Carlo Cercignani Ⓟ
- 1947: Wolfgang Alt Ⓟ
Died:
- 1918: Johann Heinrich Graf Ⓟ
- 1956: David Picken Ⓟ
- 1994: Frank Yates Ⓟ
- 2012: Nathan Divinsky Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Maurits Escher
There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.
