On this day in 1966 Stephen Smale received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow for his work on dynamical systems. Ten days later on the steps of Moscow University he made a speech condemning American military activity in Vietnam and Soviet military involvement in Hungary.
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Born:
1744: Pierre Méchain Ⓟ
1773: Louis Benjamin Francoeur Ⓟ
1821: Arthur Cayley Ⓟ
1837: Joseph Tilly Ⓟ
1842: Jakob Rosanes Ⓟ
1852: Johann Heinrich Graf Ⓟ
1870: Frank Jackson
1884: Umberto Puppini Ⓟ
1888: Julio Rey Pastor Ⓟ
1905: Marian Rejewski Ⓟ
1907: Duro Kurepa Ⓟ
1927: Geoffrey Shephard Ⓟ
Died:
1705: Jacob Bernoulli Ⓟ
1836: Antoine Parseval
1981: Viktor Vladimirovich Vagner Ⓟ
1995: Brooke Benjamin Ⓟ
2013: David Rees Ⓟ
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