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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th September
On this day in 1822, Janos Bolyai graduated from the Academy of Engineering at Vienna. He had achieved such outstanding success that he spent a further year in Vienna on academic studies before entering military service.
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Born:
- 1859: Boris Yakovlevic Bukreev Ⓟ
- 1863: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave Ⓟ
- 1871: Ernst Julius Amberg Ⓟ
- 1902: G Leslie Frewin
- 1907: Maurice Kendall Ⓟ
Died:
- 1949: James McBride Ⓟ
- 1951: Winifred Edgerton Merrill Ⓟ
- 1956: Witold Hurewicz Ⓟ
- 1967: Albert Ingham Ⓟ
- 1977: J E Littlewood Ⓟ
- 2020: Vaughan Jones Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From J E Littlewood
Before creation God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
