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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th September
On this day in 2009, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Alan Turing had been treated after the war.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
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Born:
- 1839: Charles S Peirce Ⓟ
- 1861: Theodor Molien Ⓟ
- 1897: William Greaves Ⓟ
- 1900: Frederick Bath Ⓟ
- 1903: Georges de Rham Ⓟ
- 1920: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Ⓟ
- 1930: Anatolii Volodymyrovych Skorokhod Ⓟ
Died:
- 1749: Émilie du Châtelet Ⓟ
- 1915: Howard Van Amringe Ⓟ
- 1931: Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov Ⓟ
- 1936: Kazimierz Abramowicz Ⓟ
- 1941: Fritz Noether Ⓟ
- 1946: Carruthers Beattie
- 1946: Georgii Vasilovich Pfeiffer Ⓟ
- 1985: Ernst Öpik Ⓟ
- 2005: Hermann Bondi Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hermann Bondi
An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.
