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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th November
On this day in 1752, William Braikenridge became a Fellow of the Royal Society.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1980.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1980.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1731: Benjamin Banneker Ⓟ
- 1842: Giuseppe Basso Ⓟ
- 1846: Mór Réthy Ⓟ
- 1847: Alberto Castigliano Ⓟ
- 1869: Virgil Snyder Ⓟ
- 1885: Theodor Kaluza Ⓟ
- 1885: Hermann Weyl Ⓟ
- 1889: Izabela Abramowicz Ⓟ
- 1905: A Adrian Albert Ⓟ
- 1906: Yaroslav Borisovich Lopatynsky Ⓟ
- 1922: Imre Lakatos Ⓟ
Died:
- 1890: Alexander Yule Fraser
- 1906: Dorothea Beale Ⓟ
- 1907: Georg Sidler Ⓟ
- 1942: Graciano Ricalde Ⓟ
- 1954: F F P Bisacre
- 1966: Daniel Rutherford Ⓟ
- 1981: Lois Griffiths Ⓟ
- 1984: Hans Petersson Ⓟ
- 2012: Serge Mikhalovich Nikolski Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hermann Weyl
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.
