MacTutorMathematicians 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.
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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 Lajos Martin
I want to glance at the influence of the flying machine on the life in future. New life conditions will develop: the transportation will depend less on the railways ... society will insure itself with new international contracts and agreements.
Inaugural address at Kolozsvar University (1872)
