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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd November
On this day in 1726, James Stirling was elected a fellow of the Royal Society after being proposed by Newton. In 1753 he resigned from the Royal Society as he could no longer afford the annual subscriptions.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1867: Wilhelm Kutta Ⓟ
- 1878: Arthur Coble Ⓟ
- 1890: Eugenio Togliatti Ⓟ
- 1896: Raymond Wilder Ⓟ
- 1906: Carl Boyer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1643: Paul Guldin Ⓟ
- 1832: John Leslie Ⓟ
- 1911: George Chrystal Ⓟ
- 1918: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov Ⓟ
- 1967: Alec Aitken Ⓟ
- 1972: Sigekatu Kuroda Ⓟ
- 1980: BronisÅ‚aw Knaster Ⓟ
- 2012: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Raymond Wilder
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.
