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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd May
On this day in 1849, Arthur Cayley was called to the Bar. He spent 14 years as a lawyer but Cayley, although very skilled in conveyancing (his legal speciality), always considered it as a means to make money so that he could pursue mathematics. During his 14 years at the bar he wrote nearly 300 mathematical papers.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1842: Otto Stolz Ⓟ
- 1857: Alexander Yule Fraser
- 1860: Vito Volterra Ⓟ
- 1916: Aryeh Dvoretzky Ⓟ
- 1924: Isadore Singer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1885: Ferdinand Minding Ⓟ
- 1988: Lev Pontryagin Ⓟ
- 1988: Abraham Seidenberg Ⓟ
- 2019: Goro Shimura Ⓟ
- 2023: Vicky Neale Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Vito Volterra
Empires die, but Euclid's theorems keep their youth forever.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty