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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.
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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 Mark Kac
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.
