Mathematicians Of The Day

27th May



On this day in 1849Pafnuty Chebyshev defended his doctoral number theory dissertation The Theory of Congruences at St Petersburg University. This work received a prize from the Academy of Sciences.

On this day in 2020 Google released a Gutiérrez doodle.

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Quotation of the day

From Herbert Seifert
Today it is very hard to write mathematical books.
A quote from Kepler that appeared in Seifert and Threlfall's Lectures in Topology (1934) and which got the authors into trouble with the authorities.