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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd August
On this day in 1784, Lazare Carnot received two gold medals and a prize from the Paris Academy of Science for his Éloge de Vauban, the presentation being by the Prince of Condé.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1950.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1950.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1856: Ferdinand Rudio Ⓟ
- 1887: Oskar Anderson Ⓟ
- 1890: Herbert Dingle Ⓟ
- 1902: Mina Rees Ⓟ
- 1927: Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Ⓟ
- 1942: Patrick Keast Ⓟ
- 1946: Nigel Hitchin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1823: Lazare Carnot Ⓟ
- 1962: John Smith
- 1970: Salvatore Cherubino
- 1976: László Kalmár Ⓟ
- 2016: Jonathan Borwein Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lazare Carnot
When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.
