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Mathematicians Of The Day
21st October
On this day in 1854 Florence Nightingale embarked for the Crimea with thirty-eight nurses: ten Roman Catholic Sisters, eight Anglican Sisters of Mercy, six nurses from St John's Institute, and fourteen from various hospitals.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1982.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1982.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1687: Nicolaus (I) Bernoulli
- 1823: Enrico Betti Ⓟ
- 1855: Giovanni Guccia Ⓟ
- 1882: Harry Vandiver Ⓟ
- 1893: Bill Ferrar Ⓟ
- 1914: Martin Gardner Ⓟ
Died:
- 1881: Eduard Heine Ⓟ
- 1969: Wacław Sierpiński Ⓟ
- 1990: Karl Aubert Ⓟ
- 2000: Dirk Struik Ⓟ
- 2002: Bernhard Neumann Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Martin Gardner
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
