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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th December
On this day in 1902, Leonard Dickson married Susan Davis. Later, he said of his honeymoon: "It was a great success, except that I only got two research papers written."
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Born:
- 1869: Emilie Martin Ⓟ
- 1888: Joseph Proudman Ⓟ
- 1897: StanisÅ‚aw Saks Ⓟ
- 1935: Rolando Chuaqui Ⓟ
- 1947: Georgia Benkart Ⓟ
Died:
- 1691: Robert Boyle Ⓟ
- 1932: Eliakim Moore Ⓟ
- 1947: Alfred North Whitehead Ⓟ
- 1956: Heinrich Scholz Ⓟ
- 1978: Mark Aronovich Naimark Ⓟ
- 1982: Philip Hall Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alfred North Whitehead
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.
