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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd August
On this day in 1944, Hermann Göring authorised the creation of the Oberwolfach Institute in the Black Forest. Oberwolfach continues as an international centre for mathematics.
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Born:
- 1835: Artemas Martin Ⓟ
- 1851: George FitzGerald Ⓟ
- 1890: Martha Betz Shapley Ⓟ
- 1914: Mark Kac Ⓟ
- 1926: Maurice Auslander Ⓟ
- 1943: Béla Bollobás Ⓟ
- 1945: George Saitoti Ⓟ
Died:
- 1914: Louis Couturat Ⓟ
- 1917: Georg Frobenius Ⓟ
- 1922: Matyáš Lerch Ⓟ
- 1959: Jakob Nielsen Ⓟ
- 2011: John Quill Taylor King Ⓟ
- 2016: Geoffrey Shephard Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Mark Kac
...to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.
