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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th September
On this day in 1938, Olga Taussky married Jack Todd. 50 years later she said:-
My life and my career would have been so different if my Irishman had not come along.
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Born:
- 1550: Michael Mästlin Ⓟ
- 1775: Robert Adrain Ⓟ
- 1829: Joseph Wolstenholme Ⓟ
- 1883: Ernst Hellinger Ⓟ
- 1891: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1894: Dirk Struik Ⓟ
- 1913: Samuel Eilenberg Ⓟ
- 1918: Leslie Fox Ⓟ
- 1927: Sigurður Helgason
Died:
- 1612: João Delgado
- 1632: Thomas Allen Ⓟ
- 1930: Lászlo Rátz Ⓟ
- 1946: Henry Plummer Ⓟ
- 1953: Lewis Fry Richardson Ⓟ
- 1968: Francesco Cecioni Ⓟ
- 2003: Geoffrey Kneebone Ⓟ
- 2015: Stanisław Świerczkowski Ⓟ
- 2017: Vladimir Voevodsky Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lewis Fry Richardson
Big whorls have little whorls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty