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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th November
On this day in 1673 Christopher Wren was knighted.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1926.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1926.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1845: Ulisse Dini Ⓟ
- 1865: Giuseppe Bagnera Ⓟ
- 1882: Robert Lee Moore Ⓟ
- 1896: Bertram Wilson
- 1916: Roger Apéry Ⓟ
- 1919: Paulette Libermann Ⓟ
- 1932: Jacques Neveu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1716: Gottfried Leibniz Ⓟ
- 1798: Naonobu Ajima Ⓟ
- 1954: Ernst Fischer Ⓟ
- 1971: Hanna Neumann Ⓟ
- 2006: Gustave Choquet Ⓟ
- 2014: Evgenii B Dynkin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gottfried Leibniz
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time of Newton, what he has done is much the better half.
