Mathematicians Of The Day
31st March
On this day in 1952, Alan Turing was charged with homosexual acts, offering no defence other than that he saw nothing wrong in his actions. Found guilty, he was given the alternatives of prison or oestrogen injections for a year. He accepted the latter and returned to a wide range of academic pursuits.
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Born:
- 1596: René Descartes Ⓟ
- 1730: Étienne Bézout Ⓟ
- 1795: Louis Richard
- 1800: Stephen de Gurbs
- 1806: Thomas Kirkman Ⓟ
- 1848: Diederik Korteweg Ⓟ
- 1884: Nicolae Abramescu Ⓟ
- 1917: Beno Eckmann Ⓟ
- 1920: Frank Bonsall Ⓟ
- 1921: Martin Löb Ⓟ
Died:
- 1624: João Baptista Lavanha
- 1727: Isaac Newton Ⓟ
- 1877: Augustin Cournot Ⓟ
- 1920: Paul Bachmann Ⓟ
- 1964: William Gentle Ⓟ
- 1971: William Youden Ⓟ
- 1991: Linards Reiziņš Ⓟ
- 1997: Lyman Spitzer Ⓟ
- 2001: Geoffrey Walker Ⓟ
- 2003: Donald Coxeter Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Isaac Newton
I know not what I appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilest the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.