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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th May
On this day in 1996, Volodymyr Petryshyn killed his wife Arcadia with a hammer, After making a mistake in a proof he feared that he would be ridiculed by his fellow mathematicians and while under the strain of this, he had a complete mental breakdown. He was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. He later published Development of mathematical sciences in the Ukraine in Ukrainian in 2004.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Mihailo Petrović doodle.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Mihailo Petrović doodle.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1769: Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette Ⓟ
- 1792: Martin Ohm Ⓟ
- 1865: J A Third
- 1868: Mihailo Petrović Ⓟ
- 1872: Willem de Sitter Ⓟ
- 1895: Júlio Mello e Souza Ⓟ
- 1901: Nikolai Evgrafovich Kochin Ⓟ
- 1906: André Weil Ⓟ
- 1942: Thierry Aubin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1856: William Hamilton Ⓟ
- 1916: Ágoston Scholtz
- 1928: Robert Allardice Ⓟ
- 1951: Élie Cartan Ⓟ
- 1968: Hendrik Kloosterman Ⓟ
- 1983: Yudell Luke Ⓟ
- 2009: Chuan-Chih Hsiung Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From André Weil
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
