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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th July
On this day in 1835, Ada Byron married William King. She became Countess of Lovelace when her husband became an earl three years later.
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Born:
- 1760: Christian Kramp
- 1777: Daniel Hecht
- 1829: Robert Ferguson
- 1892: Torsten Carleman Ⓟ
- 1904: Henri Cartan Ⓟ
- 1915: Kenneth May Ⓟ
Died:
- 1390: Albert of Saxony Ⓟ
- 1695: Christiaan Huygens Ⓟ
- 1934: Édouard Benjamin Baillaud Ⓟ
- 1971: Kurt Reidemeister Ⓟ
- 1990: Ottó Steinfeld Ⓟ
- 1990: David Widder Ⓟ
- 2008: Sixto Ríos Ⓟ
- 2010: David Blackwell Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Torsten Carleman
... professors ought to be shot at the age of fifty.
