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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.
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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
I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.
