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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th August
On this day in 1835, George Airy began his 46-year reign as England's seventh Astronomer Royal.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1730: Charles Bossut Ⓟ
- 1829: Norman Ferrers Ⓟ
- 1843: Enrico D'Ovidio Ⓟ
- 1851: Julius Gysel Ⓟ
- 1889: Andrei Razmadze Ⓟ
- 1895: Egon Pearson Ⓟ
- 1912: Norman Levinson Ⓟ
- 1956: Pierre-Louis Lions Ⓟ
Died:
- 1464: Nicholas Kryffs Ⓟ
- 1578: Pedro Nunes Ⓟ
- 1880: Ramchundra Ⓟ
- 1892: Enrico Betti Ⓟ
- 1939: Paul Epstein Ⓟ
- 1948: J A Third
- 1991: Satoshi Suzuki Ⓟ
- 1995: Alonzo Church Ⓟ
- 2003: Armand Borel Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alonzo Church
I never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.
