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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th June
On this day in 1884 Sofia Kovalevskaya was officially appointed extraordinary professor at Stockholm University. She became the first woman since the physicist Laura Bassi and Maria Agnesi to hold a chair at a European university.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1858: Alice Lee Ⓟ
- 1875: Henri Lebesgue Ⓟ
- 1880: Leo Harmaja Ⓟ
- 1888: Bibhutibhushan Datta Ⓟ
- 1894: Einar Carl Hille Ⓟ
- 1920: Nicolaas Kuiper Ⓟ
- 1928: Gordon Pask Ⓟ
- 1929: Ward Cheney Ⓟ
- 1934: Michael Artin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1796: Antonio Mario Lorgna Ⓟ
- 1889: Maria Mitchell Ⓟ
- 1930: William J Greenstreet Ⓟ
- 1944: Alfreds Meders
- 1952: William Watson Ⓟ
- 1972: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Ⓟ
- 1984: Claude Chevalley Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Maria Mitchell
Standing under the canopy of the stars, you can scarcely do a petty deed or think a wicked thought.
