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Mathematicians Of The Day
16th August
On this day in 1966 Stephen Smale received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow for his work on dynamical systems. Ten days later on the steps of Moscow University he made a speech condemning American military activity in Vietnam and Soviet military involvement in Hungary.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1744: Pierre Méchain Ⓟ
- 1773: Louis Benjamin Francoeur Ⓟ
- 1821: Arthur Cayley Ⓟ
- 1837: Joseph Tilly Ⓟ
- 1842: Jakob Rosanes Ⓟ
- 1852: Johann Heinrich Graf Ⓟ
- 1870: Frank Jackson
- 1884: Umberto Puppini Ⓟ
- 1888: Julio Rey Pastor Ⓟ
- 1905: Marian Rejewski Ⓟ
- 1907: Đuro Kurepa Ⓟ
- 1927: Geoffrey Shephard Ⓟ
Died:
- 1705: Jacob Bernoulli Ⓟ
- 1836: Antoine Parseval
- 1981: Viktor Vladimirovich Vagner Ⓟ
- 1995: Brooke Benjamin Ⓟ
- 2012: Jorge Ize Ⓟ
- 2013: David Rees Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Arthur Cayley
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
