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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th October
On this day in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama honoured Rudolf Kalman in an awards ceremony at the White House when he presented him with the National Medal of Science.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1963.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1963.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1601: Florimond de Beaune
- 1875: Raymond Archibald Ⓟ
- 1884: Fritz Noether Ⓟ
- 1885: Niels Bohr Ⓟ
- 1899: Øystein Ore Ⓟ
- 1905: Wilhelm Ljunggren Ⓟ
- 1955: Francesco de Giovanni Ⓟ
Died:
- 1719: Pierre Rémond de Montmort Ⓟ
- 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz Ⓟ
- 1920: Gaston Floquet Ⓟ
- 1957: Jekuthiel Ginsburg Ⓟ
- 1965: Jesse Douglas Ⓟ
- 1992: Martin Eichler Ⓟ
- 1993: Andrei Tikhonov Ⓟ
- 1995: Olga Taussky-Todd Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Niels Bohr
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
