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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st September
On this day in 1681, Michelangelo Ricci was made a cardinal by Pope Innocent XI.
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Born:
- 1647: Giovanni Ceva
- 1659: Joseph Saurin
- 1768: Pietro Abbati Marescotti
- 1835: Stanley Jevons Ⓟ
- 1882: Henry Sheffer Ⓟ
- 1901: George Temple Ⓟ
- 1906: Ernst Peschl Ⓟ
- 1910: Pao Lu Hsu Ⓟ
- 1932: Jack van Lint Ⓟ
Died:
- 1648: Marin Mersenne Ⓟ
- 1687: Henry More Ⓟ
- 1716: Heinrich Meissner Ⓟ
- 1908: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Korkin Ⓟ
- 1927: Emil Müller
- 1982: Ludwig Bieberbach Ⓟ
- 1982: Haskell Curry Ⓟ
- 2008: Oded Schramm Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Stanley Jevons
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
