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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd February
On this day in 1883 the preliminary meeting to set up the Edinburgh Mathematical Society was held.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2004 Google released a Gaston Julia doodle (a day early) and on this day in 2020 they released a Somerville doodle (to celebrate when her 1826 paper was read to the Royal Society).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2004 Google released a Gaston Julia doodle (a day early) and on this day in 2020 they released a Somerville doodle (to celebrate when her 1826 paper was read to the Royal Society).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1522: Lodovico Ferrari
- 1765: Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky Ⓟ
- 1786: Jacques Binet Ⓟ
- 1793: William Hopkins Ⓟ
- 1842: Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotsky Ⓟ
- 1849: Leopold Gegenbauer Ⓟ
- 1860: August Gutzmer Ⓟ
- 1865: Rosenberg, Fabian
- 1870: Henri Fehr Ⓟ
- 1881: Gustav Herglotz Ⓟ
- 1882: Joseph Wedderburn Ⓟ
- 1893: Cornelius Lanczos Ⓟ
- 1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski Ⓟ
- 1897: Gertrude Blanch Ⓟ
- 1903: Bartel van der Waerden Ⓟ
Died:
- 1612: Christopher Clavius Ⓟ
- 1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital Ⓟ
- 1841: Olinthus Gregory Ⓟ
- 1911: Charles Méray Ⓟ
- 1950: Constantin Carathéodory Ⓟ
- 1965: Neville Watson Ⓟ
- 1970: Bertrand Russell Ⓟ
- 1971: Yurii Sokolov Ⓟ
- 1974: Imre Lakatos Ⓟ
- 2005: Edward Maitland Wright Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
