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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th August
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Born:
- 1530: Giovanni Benedetti Ⓟ
- 1737: Charles Hutton Ⓟ
- 1850: Walter Rouse Ball Ⓟ
- 1865: Guido Castelnuovo Ⓟ
- 1866: Charles de la Vallée Poussin Ⓟ
- 1867: Charles Noble Ⓟ
- 1891: Witold Wilkosz Ⓟ
- 1906: Eugene Lukacs Ⓟ
- 1914: Tadeusz Boleslaw Ślebarski Ⓟ
Died:
- 1886: Edmond Laguerre Ⓟ
- 1922: Sophie Willock Bryant Ⓟ
- 1930: Florian Cajori Ⓟ
- 1934: William McFadden Orr Ⓟ
- 1943: Flora Philip Ⓟ
- 1956: Hans Hamburger Ⓟ
- 1967: Jovan Karamata Ⓟ
- 1987: Shigeo Sasaki Ⓟ
- 2007: Alexandru Lupas Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Florian Cajori
One of the most baneful delusions by which the minds, not only of students, but even of many teachers of mathematics in our classical colleges, have been afflicted with is, that mathematics can be mastered by the favored few, but lies beyond the grasp and power of the ordinary mind.
