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Mathematicians Of The Day
4th January
On this day in 1845, Giusto Bellavitis was appointed full professor of descriptive geometry at the University of Padua following a competitive examination. He held no degrees until the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy and mathematics the following year.
On this day in 2010 Google released a Newton doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1957.
On this day in 2010 Google released a Newton doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1957.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1643: Isaac Newton Ⓟ
- 1818: Ole Jacob Broch Ⓟ
- 1848: Heinrich Suter Ⓟ
- 1876: Agnes Wells Ⓟ
- 1890: Raymond Brink Ⓟ
- 1908: Schieffelin Claytor Ⓟ
- 1913: Sixto Ríos Ⓟ
Died:
- 1752: Gabriel Cramer Ⓟ
- 1826: Nikolai Fuss Ⓟ
- 1894: William Oughter Lonie Ⓟ
- 1904: Anna Winlock Ⓟ
- 1906: Charles Joly Ⓟ
- 1950: Virgil Snyder Ⓟ
- 1958: Archie Alexander Ⓟ
- 1961: Erwin Schrödinger Ⓟ
- 1975: Levan Gokieli Ⓟ
- 2005: Frank Harary Ⓟ
- 2013: James Ezeilo Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Erwin Schrödinger
The idea of the continuum seems simple to us. We have somehow lost sight of the difficulties it implies ... We are told such a number as the square root of 2 worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was highly credible.
