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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th August
On this day in 1950, Harald Bohr presented a Fields Medal to Laurent Schwartz at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Harvard for his work on the theory of distributions.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1990.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1990.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1703: Jean-Louis Calandrini Ⓟ
- 1819: Joseph Serret Ⓟ
- 1827: Lajos Martin Ⓟ
- 1856: Carl Runge Ⓟ
- 1906: Olga Taussky-Todd Ⓟ
- 1907: John Mauchly Ⓟ
Died:
- 1621: Baha' al-Din al-Amili Ⓟ
- 1928: Wilhelm Wien Ⓟ
- 1961: Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich Ⓟ
- 1978: Henryk Zygalski Ⓟ
- 1995: Fischer Sheffey Black Ⓟ
- 1998: Irving Segal Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Joseph Serret
Algebra is, properly speaking, the Analysis of equations.
