Mathematicians Of The Day
5th September
On this day in 1938 the Racial Laws were passed which excluded all those of Jewish background from universities and other institutions in Germany. Many mathematicians were affected by this.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1981.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1981.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1667: Giovanni Saccheri
- 1725: Étienne Montucla Ⓟ
- 1896: Ivo Lah Ⓟ
- 1927: William Moser Ⓟ
- 1932: Donald Solitar Ⓟ
Died:
- 1575: Frederico Commandino Ⓟ
- 1906: Ludwig Boltzmann Ⓟ
- 1917: Marian Smoluchowski Ⓟ
- 1921: Alfonso Del Re
- 1959: Kazimierz Zarankiewicz Ⓟ
- 1972: Tadeusz Ważewski Ⓟ
- 1982: Edwin Beckenbach Ⓟ
- 1994: Shimshon Amitsur Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ludwig Boltzmann
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time... the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.