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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th July
On this day in 1985, Spain issued a 12 Spanish peseta stamp in honour of Esteban Terradas in their 'Famous People' series.
See THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1851: Friedrich Schottky Ⓟ
- 1856: Émile Picard Ⓟ
- 1871: Paul Epstein Ⓟ
- 1888: Dunham Jackson Ⓟ
- 1909: Jerzy Rozycki Ⓟ
- 1917: Clarence Francis Stephens Ⓟ
- 1923: Christine Hamill Ⓟ
- 1928: Errett Bishop Ⓟ
Died:
- 1934: Hans Hahn Ⓟ
- 1964: Finlay Freundlich Ⓟ
- 1983: Eberhard Hopf Ⓟ
- 1993: Igor Kluvánek Ⓟ
- 2014: David Broomhead Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Émile Picard
True rigour is productive, being distinguished in this from another rigour which is purely formal and tiresome, casting a shadow over the problems it touches.
