21st August

Mathematicians Of The Day

21st August

On this day in 1893, a so called International Congress of Mathematicians opened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was the precursor of the later ICMs.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.

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Born:

1789: Augustin-Louis Cauchy Ⓟ
1860: Alexander Morgan
1881: Samuel Beatty Ⓟ
1881: Archibald Richardson Ⓟ
1901: Edward Copson Ⓟ
1905: Alexander Doniphan Wallace Ⓟ
1909: Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov Ⓟ
1929: Margaret Rayner Ⓟ
1932: Louis de Branges Ⓟ
1934: Paul-André Meyer Ⓟ
1937: Leonid Andreevich Pastur Ⓟ
1940: Endre Szemerédi Ⓟ

Died:

1757: Samuel König Ⓟ
1771: Alexis Fontaine
1836: Claude-Louis Navier Ⓟ
1927: William Burnside Ⓟ
1933: Leon Lichtenstein Ⓟ
1961: Cyrus Colton MacDuffee Ⓟ
1961: Eric Harold Neville Ⓟ
1972: Richard Gwilt
1974: Louis Melville Milne-Thomson Ⓟ
1995: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ⓟ
2006: Martin Löb Ⓟ
2010: Don Carlson Ⓟ
2012: Bill Thurston Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Augustin-Louis Cauchy

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

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