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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th August
On this day in 1900, David Hilbert gave a talk at the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in which he described 10 from a list of 23 problems.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1902: Paul Dirac Ⓟ
- 1910: Johanna Weber Ⓟ
- 1912: Ralph Boas Ⓟ
- 1921: Edwin Spanier Ⓟ
- 1931: Roger Penrose Ⓟ
- 1935: John Hildebrant Ⓟ
Died:
- 1555: Oronce Fine Ⓟ
- 1853: Jozéf Hoëné Wronski Ⓟ
- 1979: Lionel Cooper Ⓟ
- 1989: Taro Morishima Ⓟ
- 2009: Muriel Wales Ⓟ
- 2017: Cathleen Morawetz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Paul Dirac
I learned to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.
