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D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson https://zbmath.org/authors/thompson.darcy-wentworth, known for his work on biomathematics, was #botd 165 years ago. Martin Kemp's 'Spirals of life: D’Arcy Thompson and Theodore Cook, with Leonardo and Dürer in retrospect' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0836.01016.

Al Lewis #BOTD in MUNSTER, GO HOME (1966) the Universal feature film released after the TV series completed its two-season run on CBS.

"Democracy stands for freedom, love, and tolerance, and it's up to each of us citizens to practice it daily."

— Eve Arden #BOTD on the CBS radio sitcom OUR MISS BROOKS in 1949

At the conclusion of the Our Miss Brooks radio show starring Eve Arden, of an episode called "English Test" which was broadcast over CBS ra...

Sergey Nikolsky https://zbmath.org/authors/nikolskii.sergei-mikhailovich, known for his work on PDE, was #botd 120 years ago. His book 'Approximation of functions of several variables and imbedding theorems' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0185.37901.

'Hoe oud moet ik nog worden om jong te sterven.'

JEROEN BROUWERS (1940-2022) #botd #30april

Uit: 'Cliënt E. Busken'. #roman (2020).

Een man, die in een zorginstelling hulpeloos zit vastgegord in een rolstoel, ergert zich aan het zorgpersoneel en de medebewoners.

Mijn liefde is de geheime bloem van mijn ziel
En de bloemen der aarde zijn haar verganklijke beelden

NINE VAN DER SCHAAF (1882-1973) #botd #29april

Uit: "#Gedichten", in "De #Beweging", #1917

Op deze pagina lees je de tekst 'De Beweging. Jaargang 13'

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Gerhard Hochschild https://zbmath.org/authors/hochschild.gerhard-p, known for his work in algebra, was #botd 110 years ago. His book 'The structure of Lie groups' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0131.02702.

Sylvestre François Lacroix https://zbmath.org/authors/lacroix.sylvestre-f, known for his textbooks on analysis and geometry, was #botd 260 years ago.
João Caramalho Domingues's monograph 'Lacroix and the calculus' was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/1141.01006.

Vladimir Boltyansky https://zbmath.org/authors/boltyanskij.vladimir-grigorevich, known for his work in optimal control and convex geometry, was #botd 100 years ago.
His seminal book "The mathematical theory of optimal processes" (with Pontryagin, Gamkrelidze, and Mishchenko) was reviewed in https://zbmath.org/0102.31901, https://zbmath.org/0102.32001, and https://zbmath.org/0516.49001.

Vincent Price in a promotional photo for THE TINGLER (1959), produced and directed by William Castle.