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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th October
On this day in 1952, Charles Coulson delivered his inaugural lecture as Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford on The spirit of applied mathematics.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1703: Antoine Deparcieux Ⓟ
- 1804: Pierre Verhulst Ⓟ
- 1873: Karl Sundman Ⓟ
- 1880: Michele Cipolla Ⓟ
- 1892: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis Ⓟ
- 1904: Andrzej Turowicz Ⓟ
- 1936: Joram Lindenstrauss Ⓟ
Died:
- 1703: John Wallis Ⓟ
- 1917: Eugenio Levi Ⓟ
- 1918: Ulisse Dini Ⓟ
- 1918: Edward Bouchet Ⓟ
- 1965: Luther Eisenhart Ⓟ
- 1965: Luigi Amoroso Ⓟ
- 1986: Irving Reiner Ⓟ
- 1989: Louise Szmir Hay Ⓟ
- 2014: Hans Schneider Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Wallis
Quamquam enim hanc spes non exigua visa est affulsisse, lubricus tamen quem prae manibus habemus Proteus tam hic quam superius non raro elapsus, spem fefellit.
[Although no small hope seemed to shine, what we have in hand is slippery, like Proteus, who, in the same way, often escaped, and disappointed hope.]
