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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 Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Wallis
Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.
