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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th June
On this day in 1634, Gilles Personne de Roberval was proclaimed the winner of the triennial competition for the Ramus chair at the Collège Royal in Paris. Thereafter he kept his mathematical discoveries secret so that he could continue to win the competition and keep the chair. As a consequence he lost credit for many of his discoveries.
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Born:
- 1877: Thomas Havelock Ⓟ
- 1880: Oswald Veblen Ⓟ
- 1888: Georges Darmois Ⓟ
- 1900: Wilhelm Cauer Ⓟ
- 1909: Bill Penney Ⓟ
- 1915: Fred Hoyle Ⓟ
- 1917: Joan Clarke Ⓟ
- 1927: Slamet Dajono Ⓟ
- 1930: Satoshi Suzuki Ⓟ
Died:
- 1832: Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky Ⓟ
- 1880: Jules Lissajous Ⓟ
- 1978: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh Ⓟ
- 2005: Günter Lumer Ⓟ
- 2009: Elena Moldovan Popoviciu Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Oswald Veblen
[What is] not always understood by those who try to bring about closer relations between faculty and students [is] that in all forms of social intercourse the provisions for privacy are as important as those for proximity.
