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Mathematicians Of The Day
21st July
On this day in 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits from the whole Roman Catholic Church. Among the mathematicians affected were Riccati, Boscovich, Vega and Hallerstein.
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Born:
- 1620: Jean Picard Ⓟ
- 1849: Robert Woodward Ⓟ
- 1861: Herbert Ellsworth Slaught Ⓟ
- 1895: Erich Hans Rothe Ⓟ
- 1906: Carlo Federici Ⓟ
- 1926: John Leech Ⓟ
Died:
- 1873: Delfino Codazzi
- 1925: Giovanni Frattini Ⓟ
- 1937: Edwin Elliott Ⓟ
- 1949: Alice Everett Ⓟ
- 1966: Francesco Cantelli Ⓟ
- 1966: Philipp Frank Ⓟ
- 1974: Carlos Benjamin de Lyra Ⓟ
- 1993: Edwin Pitman Ⓟ
- 2016: Roger Godement Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Roger Godement
To speak of the future of mathematics is a capricious undertaking which cannot be too strongly advised against; strictly speaking, it is absurd.
