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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd July
On this day in 1971, the first meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics took place at Thames Polytechnic [now the University of Greenwich].
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1622: René de Sluze Ⓟ
- 1646: Choi Seok-jeong Ⓟ
- 1823: Hugh Blackburn Ⓟ
- 1842: George Thom Ⓟ
- 1847: Andrew Gray Ⓟ
- 1852: William Burnside Ⓟ
- 1889: Doris Adams Ⓟ
- 1892: Arnold Walfisz Ⓟ
- 1897: Stanisława Nikodym Ⓟ
- 1906: Hans Bethe Ⓟ
- 1914: Mário Schenberg Ⓟ
- 1925: Olga Arsenievna Oleinik Ⓟ
- 1926: Rebeca Cherep de Guber Ⓟ
- 1927: James Mackay Ⓟ
Died:
- 1613: Bartholomeo Pitiscus Ⓟ
- 1621: Thomas Harriot Ⓟ
- 1919: Theodor Reye Ⓟ
- 1926: Peter Ramsay
- 1947: Nikolai Chebotaryov Ⓟ
- 2016: Rudolf Kalman Ⓟ
- 2021: Dorothy Foster Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hans Bethe
No one any longer pays attention to - if I may call it - the spirit of physics, the idea of discovery, the idea of understanding. I think it's difficult to make clear to the non-physicist the beauty of how it fits together, of how you can build a world picture, and the beauty that the laws of physics are immutable.
