Mathematicians Of The Day
12th October
On this day in 1894, George Bruce Halsted, president of the Texas Academy of Science, gave his inaugural address on Original research and creative authorship: the essence of university teaching. When he criticised the University of Texas regents for being political appointees he was dismissed from his post in 1902.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1992.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1992.
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Born:
- 1904: Georgi Bradistilov Ⓟ
- 1910: Ernests Fogels Ⓟ
- 1913: Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram Ⓟ
- 1920: Arthur Read Ⓟ
- 1954: Verdiana Masanja Ⓟ
Died:
- 1492: Piero della Francesca Ⓟ
- 1682: Jean Picard Ⓟ
- 1919: Frances Chick Wood Ⓟ
- 1926: Edwin Abbott Abbott Ⓟ
- 1936: William Sheppard Ⓟ
- 1970: Andreas Speiser Ⓟ
- 1984: Georgii Dmitrievich Suvorov Ⓟ
- 2006: Gerard Murphy Ⓟ
- 2009: Israel Gohberg Ⓟ
- 2011: Pierre Lelong Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edwin Abbott Abbott
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs ... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensions, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.