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Mathematicians Of The Day
13th August
On this day in 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded a Fields Medal
... for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2021.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1625: Erasmus Bartholin Ⓟ
- 1704: Alexis Fontaine
- 1819: George Stokes Ⓟ
- 1842: Gaston Darboux Ⓟ
- 1861: Cesare Burali-Forti Ⓟ
- 1866: Frances Hardcastle Ⓟ
- 1866: Clara Bacon Ⓟ
- 1887: Otton Nikodym Ⓟ
- 1909: Fabio Conforto Ⓟ
- 1933: Mikhail Moiseevich Lesokhin Ⓟ
- 1936: Graham Allan Ⓟ
- 1965: Katherine Okikiolu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1882: Stanley Jevons Ⓟ
- 1896: Philipp von Seidel Ⓟ
- 1910: Florence Nightingale Ⓟ
- 1956: Volodymyr Levytsky Ⓟ
- 1957: Carl Størmer Ⓟ
- 1959: Anders Wiman Ⓟ
- 1968: Øystein Ore Ⓟ
- 1968: Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram Ⓟ
- 2008: Henri Cartan Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Florence Nightingale
The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the art of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.
