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Mathematicians Of The Day
21st November
On this day in 1804, Sophie Germain wrote her first letter to Gauss using the pseudonym M. Le Blanc.
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Born:
- 1718: István Hatvani Ⓟ
- 1847: John Wilson
- 1863: William Sheppard Ⓟ
- 1864: Cristoforo Alasia Ⓟ
- 1866: Carruthers Beattie
- 1866: Georg Scheffers Ⓟ
- 1867: Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov Ⓟ
- 1903: Robert Gillespie Ⓟ
- 1920: Vera Kublanovskaya Ⓟ
- 1921: Harry Reuter Ⓟ
- 1926: Albert Nijenhuis Ⓟ
- 1933: Etta Zuber Falconer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1866: Gustav Roch Ⓟ
- 1939: Jérôme Franel Ⓟ
- 1966: Thomas Cherry Ⓟ
- 1978: Francesco Tricomi Ⓟ
- 1980: László Rédei Ⓟ
- 1991: Hans Zassenhaus Ⓟ
- 2022: Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Francesco Tricomi
Maybe I have not succeeded in making difficult things easy, but at least I have never made an easy subject difficult.
