Mathematicians Of The Day
7th October
On this day in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama honoured Rudolf Kalman in an awards ceremony at the White House when he presented him with the National Medal of Science.
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Born:
- 1601: Florimond de Beaune
- 1875: Raymond Archibald Ⓟ
- 1884: Fritz Noether Ⓟ
- 1885: Niels Bohr Ⓟ
- 1899: Øystein Ore Ⓟ
- 1905: Wilhelm Ljunggren Ⓟ
Died:
- 1719: Pierre Rémond de Montmort Ⓟ
- 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz Ⓟ
- 1920: Gaston Floquet Ⓟ
- 1957: Jekuthiel Ginsburg Ⓟ
- 1965: Jesse Douglas Ⓟ
- 1992: Martin Eichler Ⓟ
- 1993: Andrei Tikhonov Ⓟ
- 1995: Olga Taussky-Todd Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Niels Bohr
There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.