8th July

Mathematicians Of The Day

8th July

On this day in 1835, Ada Byron married William King. She became Countess of Lovelace when her husband became an earl three years later.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2015.

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Born:

1760: Christian Kramp
1777: Daniel Hecht
1829: Robert Ferguson
1892: Torsten Carleman Ⓟ
1904: Henri Cartan Ⓟ
1915: Kenneth May Ⓟ

Died:

1390: Albert of Saxony Ⓟ
1695: Christiaan Huygens Ⓟ
1934: Édouard Benjamin Baillaud Ⓟ
1971: Kurt Reidemeister Ⓟ
1990: Ottó Steinfeld Ⓟ
1990: David Widder Ⓟ
2008: Sixto Ríos Ⓟ
2010: David Blackwell Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Christiaan Huygens

The world is my country, science is my religion.

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Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty