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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
... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".
