Mathematicians Of The Day
7th September
On this day in 1954, Lee Lorch was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and was asked whether he was a member of the Communist Party. He was later dismissed by Fisk University.
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Born:
- 1707: Georges Buffon Ⓟ
- 1819: Jean-Claude Bouquet Ⓟ
- 1884: Georges Valiron
- 1901: Richard Robb
- 1903: Dudley Littlewood Ⓟ
- 1915: Kiyosi Ito Ⓟ
- 1924: Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovskii Ⓟ
- 1948: Cheryl Praeger Ⓟ
- 1955: Efim Zelmanov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1682: Juan Caramuel Ⓟ
- 1918: Ludwig Sylow Ⓟ
- 1936: Marcel Grossmann Ⓟ
- 1947: Michele Cipolla Ⓟ
- 1951: Harry Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1956: Otto Yulyevich Schmidt Ⓟ
- 1985: George Pólya Ⓟ
- 1994: Abraham Gelbart Ⓟ
- 2003: David Spence Ⓟ
- 2016: Joseph Keller Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Pólya
I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between.