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Mathematicians Of The Day

25th June

Born:

• 1734: Monteiro da Rocha
• 1866: Ralph Sampson (poster)
• 1888: William Threlfall (poster)
• 1906: Samuel Verblunsky
• 1908: Gustav Elfving (poster)
• 1908: Willard Van Quine (poster)
• 1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin

Died:

• 1671: Giovanni Battista Riccioli (poster)
• 1936: Stefan Cohn-Vossen (poster)
• 1941: Alfred Pringsheim (poster)
• 1974: Cornelius Lanczos (poster)
• 1978: Hsien C Wang
• 1989: Udo Wegner
• 2006: Irving Kaplansky (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Willard Van Quine

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.