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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd October
On this day in 1842, Arthur Cayley was admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2007.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2007.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1863: Stanisław Zaremba Ⓟ
- 1881: Dudley Woodard Ⓟ
- 1888: Lloyd Williams Ⓟ
- 1889: Ralph Jeffery Ⓟ
- 1913: Ángel Gros Ⓟ
- 1933: Wolfgang Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1937: Sunday Iyahen Ⓟ
- 1944: Pierre Deligne Ⓟ
- 1949: Daniel Rudolph Ⓟ
Died:
- 1891: Édouard Lucas Ⓟ
- 1914: René Eugène Gateaux Ⓟ
- 1951: William Leslie Thomson
- 1952: Alexander Barrie Grieve
- 2006: John Crank Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lloyd Williams
It is my considered opinion that the system practiced in the universities of North America of trying to educate young men and young women by herding them together in rooms and lecturing to them is a failure. If you will throw the good and the ambitious student on his own, help him but not spoon-feed him, he can accomplish twice as much and do it twice as well as he can under the conditions that largely obtain in our universities.
