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."

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1981.

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Quotation of the day

From Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in details.
Quoted in W H Auden and L Kronenberger The Viking Book of Aphorisms (New York 1966).