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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th September
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Born:
- 1707: Georges Buffon Ⓟ
- 1819: Jean-Claude Bouquet Ⓟ
- 1884: Georges Valiron
- 1901: Richard Robb
- 1903: Dudley Littlewood Ⓟ
- 1915: Kiyosi Ito Ⓟ
- 1924: Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovskii Ⓟ
- 1948: Cheryl Praeger Ⓟ
- 1955: Efim Zelmanov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1682: Juan Caramuel Ⓟ
- 1918: Ludwig Sylow Ⓟ
- 1936: Marcel Grossmann Ⓟ
- 1947: Michele Cipolla Ⓟ
- 1951: Harry Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1985: George Pólya Ⓟ
- 1994: Abraham Gelbart Ⓟ
- 2003: David Spence Ⓟ
- 2016: Joseph Keller Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Georges Buffon
... all the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only one variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.
