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.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1949.

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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 Ⓟ