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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd November
On this day in 1933, the Nazi sympathiser Oswald Teichmüller led a student boycott of Edmund Landau's lectures at Göttingen. Landau was forced to leave Göttingen.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Boole doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Boole doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1815: George Boole Ⓟ
- 1826: Henry Smith Ⓟ
- 1871: Poul Heegaard Ⓟ
- 1885: Harlow Shapley Ⓟ
- 1892: Tadija Pejovic Ⓟ
- 1898: K K Weatherhead
- 1903: Viktor Kupradze
- 1911: Raphael Robinson Ⓟ
- 1984: Maryna Viazovska Ⓟ
Died:
- 1914: Heinrich Burkhardt Ⓟ
- 1954: Henri Fehr Ⓟ
- 1970: Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Ⓟ
- 1993: Đuro Kurepa Ⓟ
- 2010: Enrico Magenes Ⓟ
- 2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Ⓟ
- 2017: Francis Allotey Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Boole
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
