Mathematicians Of The Day
31st December
On this day in 1915, the Mathematical Association of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. The roots of the Association can be traced to the founding of the American Mathematical Monthly by Benjamin Finkel in 1894.
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Born:
- 1856: William Thomson Ⓟ
- 1872: Volodymyr Levytsky Ⓟ
- 1878: Ethel Elderton
- 1896: Carl Siegel Ⓟ
- 1913: Cândido Silva Dias Ⓟ
- 1916: Douglas Northcott Ⓟ
- 1930: Jaime Escalante Ⓟ
- 1937: Vladimir Maz'ya Ⓟ
- 1945: Leonard Adleman Ⓟ
- 1952: Vaughan Jones Ⓟ
Died:
- 1610: Ludolph Van Ceulen Ⓟ
- 1659: János Apáczai Ⓟ
- 1679: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Ⓟ
- 1719: John Flamsteed Ⓟ
- 1894: Thomas Stieltjes Ⓟ
- 1912: Robert Ferguson
- 1929: Onorato Nicoletti Ⓟ
- 1944: Nikolai Evgrafovich Kochin Ⓟ
- 1956: Edwin P Adams Ⓟ
- 1962: Charles Galton Darwin Ⓟ
- 1982: Kurt Friedrichs Ⓟ
- 2020: Olli Lehto Ⓟ