MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
15th February
On this day in 1675, Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke:-
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1964.
What Descartes did was a good step ... If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders of Giants.See THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1964.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1564: Galileo Galilei Ⓟ
- 1588: Benjamin Bramer Ⓟ
- 1814: William Donkin Ⓟ
- 1829: Joaquim Gomes de Souza Ⓟ
- 1839: Christian Adolph Mayer Ⓟ
- 1839: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Ⓟ
- 1850: Sophie Willock Bryant Ⓟ
- 1851: Spiru Haret Ⓟ
- 1861: Alfred North Whitehead Ⓟ
- 1882: Paul Koebe Ⓟ
- 1915: Chuan-Chih Hsiung Ⓟ
Died:
- 1739: Eustachio Manfredi Ⓟ
- 1847: Germinal Dandelin Ⓟ
- 1849: Pierre Verhulst Ⓟ
- 1900: John James Walker Ⓟ
- 1940: Otto Toeplitz Ⓟ
- 1974: Hugh Alexander Ⓟ
- 1974: George Waddel Snedecor Ⓟ
- 1988: Richard Feynman Ⓟ
- 2008: Warwick Sawyer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Richard Feynman
Where did we get that [Schrödinger's equation] from? It's not possible to derive it from anything you know. It came out of the mind of Schrödinger.
