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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th October
On this day in 1893, Karl Pearson's first statistical publication was the first in a series of 18 papers titled Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1956.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1956.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1849: Georg Frobenius Ⓟ
- 1852: François Cosserat Ⓟ
- 1852: Albin Herzog Ⓟ
- 1863: John Henry Michell Ⓟ
- 1877: Max Mason Ⓟ
- 1885: Niels Norlund Ⓟ
- 1911: Shiing-shen Chern Ⓟ
- 1925: Hanno Rund Ⓟ
- 1926: James Clunie Ⓟ
- 1930: Walter Feit Ⓟ
- 1935: Gloria Hewitt Ⓟ
Died:
- 1817: Aida Yasuaki Ⓟ
- 1922: Cargill Knott Ⓟ
- 1945: Aleksei Krylov Ⓟ
- 1968: Sergei Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1983: Alfred Tarski Ⓟ
- 1984: Mark Kac Ⓟ
- 1992: Adegoke Olubummo Ⓟ
- 1998: Kenkichi Iwasawa Ⓟ
- 2008: Douglas Munn Ⓟ
- 2010: Charles Bell Ⓟ
- 2013: Elza Furtado Gomide Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Georg Frobenius
...Organization is of the utmost importance for military affairs, as it is ... for other disciplines where the gathering process of practical knowledge exceeds the strength of any individual. In mathematics, however, organizing talent plays a most subordinate role. Here weight is carried only by the individual. The slightest idea of a Riemann or a Weierstrass is worth more than all organisational endeavours. To be sure, such endeavours have pushed to take centre stage in recent years, but they are exclusively pursued by people who have nothing, or nothing more, to offer in scientific matters. There is no royal road to mathematics.
