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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.
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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 Ⓟ
- 1930: William J Greenstreet Ⓟ
- 1944: Alfreds Meders
- 1952: William Watson Ⓟ
- 1972: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Ⓟ
- 1984: Claude Chevalley Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Henri Lebesgue
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable and definitive. They have always been in controversy over developing aspects of mathematics, and they have always considered their own age to be in a period of crisis.
