August 2004

   

Can you identify the pictured Mathematicians?

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1 Barry Edward Johnson	2 Oskar Anderson	3 Mark Kac	4 William Rowan Hamilton	5 Niels Henrik Abel	6 John Wilson	7 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
8 Paul Dirac	9 Franciscus Barocius	10 Carol Ruth Karp	11 Pierre-Louis Lions	12 Jules Richard	13 Erasmus Bartholin	14 Eugene Lukacs
15 Louis de Broglie	16 Arthur Cayley	17 Pierre de Fermat	18 Brook Taylor	19 Alan Baker	20 Simon Kirwan Donaldson	21 Augustin Louis Cauchy
22 Denis Papin	23 Moritz Cantor	24 Karen Uhlenbeck	25 Philip van Lansberge	26 Edward Witten	27 Giuseppe Peano	28 Shizuo Kakutani
29 Leonard Roth	30 Olga Taussky- Todd	31 Herbert Turnbull

A quotation for August:

Herbert Turnbull (1885 - 1961)

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little enquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity.

Preface to The Great Mathematicians (London 1929)

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