MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
25th June
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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 Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Cornelius Lanczos
Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.
