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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
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
