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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th July
On this day in 1985, Spain issued a 12 Spanish peseta stamp in honour of Esteban Terradas in their 'Famous People' series.
See THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1851: Friedrich Schottky Ⓟ
- 1856: Émile Picard Ⓟ
- 1871: Paul Epstein Ⓟ
- 1888: Dunham Jackson Ⓟ
- 1909: Jerzy Rozycki Ⓟ
- 1917: Clarence Francis Stephens Ⓟ
- 1923: Christine Hamill Ⓟ
- 1928: Errett Bishop Ⓟ
Died:
- 1934: Hans Hahn Ⓟ
- 1964: Finlay Freundlich Ⓟ
- 1983: Eberhard Hopf Ⓟ
- 1993: Igor Kluvánek Ⓟ
- 2014: David Broomhead Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Finlay Freundlich
The modern theory of relativity of Mr Einstein predicts an influence of any field of gravitation upon light passing near to the sun. The gravitation would have, according to the investigation of Einstein, the effect of deflecting the ray of the star, and Mr Einstein asked me if I would try to prove his results by observations.
