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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
In reality the origin of the notion of derivatives is in the vague feeling of the mobility of things, and of the greater or less speed with which phenomena take place; this is well expressed by the terms fluent and fluxion, which were used by Newton and which we may believe were borrowed from the ancient mathematician Heraclitus.
