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Mathematicians Of The Day

18th January

Born:

• 1853: Fabian Franklin (poster)
• 1856: Luigi Bianchi (poster)
• 1880: Paul Ehrenfest (poster)
• 1901: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky (poster)
• 1908: Jacob Bronowski (poster)
• 1927: Gyula Maurer

Died:

• 1873: Charles Dupin (poster)
• 1963: Edward Titchmarsh (poster)
• 1981: Rufus Isaacs (poster)
• 2011: John Herivel (poster)

Quotation of the day

From Jacob Bronowski

Physics becomes in those years the greatest collective work of art of the twentieth century.