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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 Ⓟ
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
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
