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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th September
On this day in 1894, Giuseppe Peano wrote to Felix Klein, "The purpose of mathematical logic is to analyse the ideas and reasoning that especially figure in the mathematical sciences."
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1749: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre Ⓟ
- 1790: Charles Hughes Terrot Ⓟ
- 1840: Emory McClintock Ⓟ
- 1888: James Alexander Ⓟ
- 1889: Eustachy Żyliński Ⓟ
- 1895: Thomas Lumsden
- 1904: Zofia Krygowska
- 1908: Marceli Stark Ⓟ
- 1914: Evgeny Sergeevich Lyapin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1843: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis Ⓟ
- 1958: Archibald Milne
- 1988: Patrick Moran Ⓟ
- 1995: Rudolf Peierls Ⓟ
- 2002: Etta Zuber Falconer Ⓟ
- 2010: Joseph Kruskal Ⓟ
- 2012: Leopoldo Franca Ⓟ
- 2016: Boris Trakhtenbrot Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
The historian owes the dead nothing but the truth.
