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Mathematicians Of The Day
25th June
On this day in 1649, Christopher Wren entered Wadham College, Oxford.
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Born:
- 1734: Monteiro da Rocha
- 1866: Ralph Sampson Ⓟ
- 1888: William Threlfall Ⓟ
- 1906: Samuel Verblunsky Ⓟ
- 1908: Gustav Elfving Ⓟ
- 1908: Willard Van Quine Ⓟ
- 1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1671: Giovanni Battista Riccioli Ⓟ
- 1936: Stefan Cohn-Vossen Ⓟ
- 1941: Alfred Pringsheim Ⓟ
- 1948: Bento Caraça Ⓟ
- 1974: Cornelius Lanczos Ⓟ
- 1978: Hsien C Wang Ⓟ
- 1989: Udo Wegner Ⓟ
- 1995: Ernest Walton Ⓟ
- 2006: Irving Kaplansky Ⓟ
- 2014: Abdulalim Shabazz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Willard Van Quine
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.
