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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th June
On this day in 1886, Winifred Edgerton became the first woman to receive a degree from Columbia University and the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics.
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Born:
- 1711: François Jacquier Ⓟ
- 1863: Edward Van Vleck Ⓟ
- 1877: Charles Glover Barkla Ⓟ
- 1924: Donald Davies Ⓟ
- 1926: John Shepherdson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1624: Giuseppe Biancani Ⓟ
- 1843: Alexis Bouvard Ⓟ
- 1847: Adolph Göpel
- 1907: Edward Routh Ⓟ
- 1937: James Macdonald
- 1954: Alan Turing Ⓟ
- 2004: Joseph Doob Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alan Turing
His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty