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Mathematicians Of The Day

17th July

Born:

• 1831: Amédée Mannheim (poster)
• 1837: Wilhelm Lexis (poster)
• 1863: Herbert Richmond (poster)
• 1868: Peter Comrie (poster)
• 1894: Georges Lemaître (poster)
• 1894: Warren Weaver (poster)
• 1909: Geoffrey Walker (poster)
• 1913: Giuseppe Pompilj
• 1944: Krystyna Kuperberg (poster)
• 1975: Terence Tao (poster)

Died:

• 1790: Johann (II) Bernoulli (poster)
• 1899: Charles Graves (poster)
• 1912: Henri Poincaré (poster)
• 1917: Giuseppe Veronese (poster)
• 1949: Roland Richardson
• 1980: Boris Nikolaevich Delone (poster)
• 1993: Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (poster)
• 1998: James Lighthill (poster)
• 2007: François Bruhat (poster)
• 2011: Norrie Everitt

Quotation of the day

From Henri Poincaré

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.