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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd July
On this day in 1680, Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus was elected to the Paris Académie des Sciences.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1755: Gaspard de Prony Ⓟ
- 1784: Wilhelm Bessel Ⓟ
- 1795: Gabriel Lamé Ⓟ
- 1861: Ernst Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1872: Alexander Durie Russell Ⓟ
- 1880: Alfred Rosenblatt Ⓟ
- 1882: Konrad Knopp Ⓟ
- 1887: Gustav Hertz Ⓟ
- 1902: Reinhold Baer Ⓟ
- 1904: Donald Eperson Ⓟ
- 1907: Edgar Raymond Lorch Ⓟ
- 1926: John Aitchison Ⓟ
- 1930: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Ⓟ
- 1935: John Stallings Ⓟ
- 1948: Chandra Kintala Ⓟ
Died:
- 1575: Francesco Maurolico Ⓟ
- 1826: Giuseppe Piazzi Ⓟ
- 1943: William Osgood Ⓟ
- 1950: Vyacheslaw Vassilievich Stepanov Ⓟ
- 1959: David van Dantzig Ⓟ
- 1995: Otakar Boruvka Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Osgood
The calculus is the greatest aid we have to the application of physical truth in the broadest sense of the word.
