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Mathematicians Of The Day

10th December

Born:

• 1804: Carl Jacobi (poster)
• 1815: Augusta Ada Byron (poster)
• 1847: Irving Stringham (poster)
• 1920: Alfred Goldie (poster)
• 1961: Oded Schramm

Died:

• 1626: Edmund Gunter
• 1949: Luigi Berzolari (poster)
• 1957: Ólafur Daníelsson
• 1968: Clement Durell
• 1986: Theodore Combridge (poster)
• 1995: Sarvadaman Chowla (poster)
• 1995: Robert C Thompson
• 1995: Steven Vajda (poster)
• 2011: Ernst Specker (poster)
• 2016: Felix Browder (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Carl Jacobi

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.