Mathematicians Of The Day
27th May
On this day in 1849, Pafnuty 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.
On this day in 2020 Google released a Gutiérrez doodle.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1862: John Campbell Ⓟ
- 1907: Herbert Seifert Ⓟ
- 1919: Erwin Hiebert Ⓟ
- 1925: Adelina Gutiérrez Moreno Ⓟ
- 1928: Charles Costley
Died:
- 1928: Arthur Schönflies Ⓟ
- 1958: Anton Davidoglu Ⓟ
- 1962: Felix Behrend
- 1964: Brian Haselgrove
- 2004: Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov Ⓟ
- 2012: Friedrich Hirzebruch Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Herbert Seifert
Today it is very hard to write mathematical books.