MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
11th August
On this day in 1835, George Airy began his 46-year reign as England's seventh Astronomer Royal.
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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
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
