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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
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
