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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
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established, another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new storey to the old structure.
