Mathematicians Of The Day: 6th June

On this day in 1959, Huygens wrote to Wallis about de Witt:

-In my opinion no century has been so abounding in mathematicians as ours, amongst whom this man even might have reached the first place, if he had been less occupied by his official duties.

Born:

1436: Regiomontanus Ⓟ

1842: Henry Taylor Ⓟ

1857: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov Ⓟ

1882: Clement Durell

1906: Max Zorn Ⓟ

1920: Jeremiah Certaine

1933: Víctor Neumann-Lara Ⓟ

Died:

1888: Erastus De Forest Ⓟ

1898: Henry Perigal Ⓟ

1928: Luigi Bianchi Ⓟ

1943: Guido Fubini Ⓟ

1972: A Adrian Albert Ⓟ

1977: Stefan Bergman Ⓟ

1985: András Huhn Ⓟ

1998: G Leslie Frewin

2012: Jean-Louis Loday Ⓟ