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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th May
On this day in 1832, Évariste Galois fought a duel with Perscheux d'Herbinville, the reason for the duel not being clear. He was wounded in the duel and was abandoned by d'Herbinville and his own seconds and found by a peasant. He died the following day and his funeral was held on 2 June. It was the focus for a Republican rally and riots followed which lasted for several days.
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Born:
- 1423: Georg Peurbach Ⓟ
- 1800: Karl Feuerbach Ⓟ
- 1814: Eugène Catalan Ⓟ
- 1874: Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave Ⓟ
- 1925: Olli Lehto Ⓟ
- 1927: Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman Ⓟ
Died:
- 1926: Vladimir A Steklov Ⓟ
- 1933: Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin Ⓟ
- 1943: Anderson McKendrick Ⓟ
- 1964: Theodor Angheluță Ⓟ
- 1989: Gianfranco Cimmino Ⓟ
- 1992: Antoni Zygmund Ⓟ
- 2008: Gilbert Hunt Ⓟ
- 2016: Henri Cabannes Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Georg Peurbach
Sol habet tres orbes
The sun has three orbs
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty