“Maxime Bôcher [pictured here],with his square beard and squarer shoes, was presiding. In the back of the room, and with a different beard but equal dignity,William Fogg Osgood was counseling a student.” —from George David Birkhoff and His Mathematical Work, by Marston Morse, and Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,May 1946, page 357. Here […]
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