Mathematicians Of The Day

4th May



On this day in 1935, Albert Einstein, in a letter to the New York Times, wrote:-
In the judgement of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Emmy Noether had died three weeks earlier.

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Quotation of the day

From Herbert Turnbull
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little enquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity.
Preface to The Great Mathematicians (London 1929)