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Mathematicians Of The Day
13th November
On this day in 1845, Michael Faraday wrote to John Herschel:
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2025.
It was only the very strongest conviction that Light, Magnetism and Electricity must be connected that could have led me to resume the subject and persevere through much labour before I found the key. Now all is simplicity itself.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2025.
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Born:
- 1786: James Thomson Ⓟ
- 1876: Ernest Wilczynski Ⓟ
- 1878: Max Dehn Ⓟ
- 1906: Hans Fitting Ⓟ
- 1920: Kollagunta Ramanathan Ⓟ
- 1922: Ambros Speiser Ⓟ
- 1927: Albert Bharucha-Reid Ⓟ
- 1950: David Broomhead Ⓟ
- 1959: Lene Vestergaard Hau Ⓟ
Died:
- 1942: Robert Remak Ⓟ
- 1944: Otto Blumenthal Ⓟ
- 2002: Frederick Atkinson Ⓟ
- 2013: Gilberto Loibel Ⓟ
- 2014: Alexander Grothendieck Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Max Dehn
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
