Mathematicians Of The Day: 27th June

On this day in 1908, the Göttingen Academy of Sciences announced a prize of one hundred thousand marks, from the will of Paul Wolfskehl, for a proof of Fermat's last theorem. Thousands of attempts at a proof were submitted. The prize would have been worth about a million pounds in today's money, but when Andrew Wiles collected the prize in 1997 it was about 75 000 DM.

Born:

1767: Alexis Bouvard Ⓟ

1806: Augustus De Morgan Ⓟ

1826: Morgan Crofton Ⓟ

1834: Erastus De Forest Ⓟ

1850: Jorgen Gram Ⓟ

1853: John Kerr

1864: Charles Joly Ⓟ

1868: Charles Tweedie

1899: Lois Griffiths Ⓟ

1915: Aleksandr Yakovlevich Povzner Ⓟ

1940: Daniel Quillen Ⓟ

Died:

1831: Sophie Germain Ⓟ

1880: Carl Borchardt Ⓟ

1883: William Spottiswoode Ⓟ

1952: Max Dehn Ⓟ

1975: Geoffrey Taylor Ⓟ

1982: Tadija Pejovic Ⓟ

1989: Newby Curle Ⓟ

2023: Evelyn Boyd Granvill