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10th August
On this day 1851, Thomas Hirst wrote in his diary:-
On Tuesday evening at Museum, at a ball in the gardens. The night was chill, I dropped too suddenly from Differential Calculus into ladies' society, and could not give myself freely to the change. After an hour's attempt so to do, I returned, cursing the mode of life I was pursuing. Next morning I had already shaken hands, however, with Differential Calculus, and forgot the ladies ...
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Born:
- 1803: Juan Manuel Cajigal Ⓟ
- 1806: Julius Weisbach Ⓟ
- 1859: Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky Ⓟ
- 1859: Georg Pick Ⓟ
- 1863: J Watt Butters Ⓟ
- 1902: Joseph Pierce Ⓟ
- 1913: Åke Pleijel Ⓟ
- 1917: Nikolai Sergeevitch Krylov Ⓟ
- 1926: Carol Karp Ⓟ
Died:
- 1802: Franz Aepinus Ⓟ
- 1843: Robert Adrain Ⓟ
- 1869: Athanase Dupré Ⓟ
- 1918: Olaus Henrici Ⓟ
- 1960: Oswald Veblen Ⓟ
- 1995: Wei-Liang Chow Ⓟ
- 2002: Kristen Nygaard Ⓟ
- 2014: Kathleen Ollerenshaw Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Oswald Veblen
Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.
