Mathematicians Of The Day: 21st August

On this day in 1893, a so called International Congress of Mathematicians opened at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was the precursor of the later ICMs.

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Born:

1789: Augustin-Louis Cauchy Ⓟ

1860: Alexander Morgan

1881: Samuel Beatty Ⓟ

1881: Archibald Richardson Ⓟ

1901: Edward Copson Ⓟ

1905: Alexander Doniphan Wallace Ⓟ

1909: Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov Ⓟ

1929: Margaret Rayner Ⓟ

1932: Louis de Branges Ⓟ

1934: Paul-André Meyer Ⓟ

1937: Leonid Andreevich Pastur Ⓟ

1940: Endre Szemerédi Ⓟ

Died:

1757: Samuel König Ⓟ

1771: Alexis Fontaine

1836: Claude-Louis Navier Ⓟ

1927: William Burnside Ⓟ

1933: Leon Lichtenstein Ⓟ

1961: Cyrus Colton MacDuffee Ⓟ

1961: Eric Harold Neville Ⓟ

1972: Richard Gwilt

1974: Louis Melville Milne-Thomson Ⓟ

1995: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ⓟ

2006: Martin Löb Ⓟ

2010: Don Carlson Ⓟ

2012: Bill Thurston Ⓟ