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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th August
On this day in 1763 Alexander Wilson was awarded an honorary degree by the University of St Andrews.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1638: Nicolas Malebranche Ⓟ
- 1741: John Wilson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1694: Antoine Arnauld Ⓟ
- 1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Ⓟ
- 1929: Emil Hilb Ⓟ
- 1939: Gaetano Scorza Ⓟ
- 1945: Paul Koebe Ⓟ
- 1947: William Thomson Ⓟ
- 1970: Zyoiti Suetuna Ⓟ
- 1970: Jan Popken Ⓟ
- 1998: André Weil Ⓟ
- 2002: Edsger Dijkstra Ⓟ
- 2007: Atle Selberg Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From André Weil
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced ... the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously... this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work...
