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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th June
On this day in 1927, Jerzy Neyman obtained his habilitation at Warsaw University and began lecturing as a docent. The following year he set up a Biometric Laboratory.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1983.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1983.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1824: William Thomson Ⓟ
- 1878: Leopold Löwenheim Ⓟ
- 1896: Vernon Morton Ⓟ
- 1902: Hans Petersson Ⓟ
- 1908: Hermann Ludwig Schmid Ⓟ
- 1911: Ernst Witt Ⓟ
- 1914: Lyman Spitzer Ⓟ
- 1915: Paul Kelly Ⓟ
- 1918: Yudell Luke Ⓟ
- 1936: Gonzalo Pérez Iribarren Ⓟ
Died:
- 1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Ⓟ
- 1796: David Rittenhouse Ⓟ
- 1903: Walter Gröbli Ⓟ
- 1946: Béla Kerékjártó Ⓟ
- 1951: George Udny Yule Ⓟ
- 1967: H T H Piaggio
- 1975: Joseph Proudman Ⓟ
- 1990: Hans Schwerdtfeger Ⓟ
- 1997: Roberto Frucht Ⓟ
- 2011: Jack Warga Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Thomson
When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
