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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 Ⓟ
- 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
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.
