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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd August
On this day in 1800, Georg Vega was given the hereditary title of baron, including the right to his own coat of arms.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1962.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1962.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1647: Denis Papin Ⓟ
- 1860: John Pullar
- 1908: Donald Sadler Ⓟ
- 1923: Hidehiko Yamabe Ⓟ
- 1927: Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt Ⓟ
- 1929: Vera Spinadel Ⓟ
- 1931: Alan Mercer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1664: Maria Cunitz Ⓟ
- 1676: Edward Cocker Ⓟ
- 1700: Siguenza y Gongora Ⓟ
- 1752: William Whiston Ⓟ
- 1794: Achille-Pierre Dionis du Séjour Ⓟ
- 1855: Matthew O'Brien Ⓟ
- 1907: Platon Sergeevich Poretsky Ⓟ
- 1925: Emanuel Czuber Ⓟ
- 1974: Jacob Bronowski Ⓟ
- 1975: Andrzej Mostowski Ⓟ
- 1975: Lancelot Hogben Ⓟ
- 2006: Rafael Artzy Ⓟ
- 2015: Guacolda Lazzerini Ⓟ
- 2018: Richard Kadison Ⓟ
- 2023: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jacob Bronowski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
