Mathematicians Of The Day

10th May



On this day in 1910Florence Nightingale was presented with the badge of honour of the Norwegian Red Cross Society. She died a few months later.

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Quotation of the day

From Augustin Fresnel
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)