Mathematicians Of The Day
10th September
On this day in 2009, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Alan Turing had been treated after the war.
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Born:
- 1839: Charles S Peirce Ⓟ
- 1861: Theodor Molien Ⓟ
- 1897: William Greaves Ⓟ
- 1900: Frederick Bath Ⓟ
- 1903: Georges de Rham Ⓟ
- 1920: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao Ⓟ
- 1930: Anatolii Volodymyrovych Skorokhod Ⓟ
Died:
- 1749: Émilie du Châtelet Ⓟ
- 1915: Howard Van Amringe Ⓟ
- 1931: Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov Ⓟ
- 1941: Fritz Noether Ⓟ
- 1946: Carruthers Beattie
- 1946: Georgii Vasilovich Pfeiffer Ⓟ
- 1985: Ernst Öpik Ⓟ
- 2005: Hermann Bondi Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Charles S Peirce
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.