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Mathematicians Of The Day
5th November
On this day in 1828, Augustus De Morgan, age 22, gave his introductory lecture, On the study of mathematics, at London University. He was the first mathematics professor at the university.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1848: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Ⓟ
- 1866: Alfred Tauber Ⓟ
- 1872: John Meiklejohn Ⓟ
- 1899: Karl Dörge Ⓟ
- 1916: Edmund Hlawka Ⓟ
- 1930: Frank Adams Ⓟ
- 1952: Bob Thomason Ⓟ
Died:
- 1526: Scipione del Ferro
- 1800: Jesse Ramsden Ⓟ
- 1879: James Clerk Maxwell Ⓟ
- 1934: Walther von Dyck Ⓟ
- 1981: Stanisław Mazur Ⓟ
- 1995: Bob Thomason Ⓟ
- 2009: Chandra Kintala Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Frank Adams
... the so-called Adams Spectral Sequence ...
