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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th October
On this day in 1994, Andrew Wiles submitted a paper which finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem. It was published in May 1995.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
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Born:
- 1821: Philipp von Seidel Ⓟ
- 1825: Carl Bjerknes Ⓟ
- 1853: Heinrich Maschke Ⓟ
- 1872: Georgii Vasilovich Pfeiffer Ⓟ
- 1873: Edmund Whittaker Ⓟ
- 1875: Henry Plummer Ⓟ
- 1883: Albert Châtelet Ⓟ
- 1906: Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond Ⓟ
- 1920: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Ⓟ
- 1946: Ola Bratteli Ⓟ
Died:
- 1601: Tycho Brahe Ⓟ
- 1635: Wilhelm Schickard Ⓟ
- 1655: Pierre Gassendi Ⓟ
- 1847: James MacCullagh Ⓟ
- 1930: Paul Appell Ⓟ
- 1944: John Morrison
- 1952: Ida Metcalf Ⓟ
- 1966: Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja Ⓟ
- 1979: Hermann Arthur Jahn Ⓟ
- 1987: Donald Sadler Ⓟ
- 2014: Johanna Weber Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edmund Whittaker
I do not remember ever having seen a sustained argument by any author which, starting from philosophical or theological premises likely to meet with general acceptance, reached the conclusion that a praiseworthy ordering of one's life is to devote it to research in mathematics.
