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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.
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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
One would be hard put to find a set of whole numbers with a more fascinating history and more elegant properties surrounded by greater depths of mystery and more totally useless than the perfect numbers.
