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Mathematicians Of The Day
4th July
On this day in 1862, Lewis Carroll took Alice Liddell and her sisters rowing on the Isis at Oxford and told them a story which later became Alice in Wonderland.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1788: Fearon Fallows Ⓟ
- 1868: Henrietta Swan Leavitt Ⓟ
- 1906: Daniel Rutherford Ⓟ
- 1917: Moshe Livsic Ⓟ
- 1923: Dan Mostow Ⓟ
- 1928: Jürgen Moser Ⓟ
Died:
- 1742: Guido Grandi Ⓟ
- 1901: P G Tait Ⓟ
- 1954: Eustachy Żyliński Ⓟ
- 1956: Bernard Childs Ⓟ
- 1962: T J J See Ⓟ
- 1981: Niels Norlund Ⓟ
- 1986: Oscar Zariski Ⓟ
- 1990: Marshall Hall Jr Ⓟ
- 1993: Alston Householder Ⓟ
- 2002: Laurent Schwartz Ⓟ
- 2006: Nathan Mendelsohn Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Marshall Hall Jr
We have used the term subinvariant subgroup as the term subnormal subgroup may be unnecessarily distracting.
