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Mathematicians Of The Day
29th August
On this day in 1831, Michael Faraday discovered his law of electrical induction.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1889: Stanisław Leon Ruziewicz Ⓟ
- 1904: Leonard Roth Ⓟ
- 1904: Jerzy Słupecki Ⓟ
- 1918: John Herivel Ⓟ
- 1945: Wilbur Knorr Ⓟ
- 1948: John Carr Ⓟ
Died:
- 1873: Hermann Hankel Ⓟ
- 1930: James Bolam
- 1937: Otto Hölder Ⓟ
- 1975: Éamon de Valera Ⓟ
- 1990: Solomon Grigoryevich Mikhlin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hermann Hankel
[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.
