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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd April
On this day in 1753, Leonard Euler wrote to Christian Goldbach to say that he had confirmed Goldbach's conjecture that every odd integer could be written as with p a prime for the the first 2500 integers. A hundred years later, Moritz Stern found two counterexamples: 5777 and 5993.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1832: Wilhelm Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1835: Howard Van Amringe Ⓟ
- 1859: Karl Heun Ⓟ
- 1892: Hans Rademacher Ⓟ
- 1900: Albert Ingham Ⓟ
- 1907: Mark Krein Ⓟ
- 1913: Jan Mikusiński Ⓟ
- 1937: Enrique Planchart Ⓟ
Died:
- 1472: Leone Battista Alberti Ⓟ
- 1718: Jacques Ozanam
- 1888: Axel Harnack Ⓟ
- 1889: Wawrzyniec Żmurko Ⓟ
- 1900: Joseph Bertrand Ⓟ
- 1974: Andor Kertész Ⓟ
- 1993: Leopoldo Nachbin Ⓟ
- 1998: Mary Cartwright Ⓟ
- 2018: David Foulis Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Joseph Bertrand
The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being longer occupied in the elaboration of pure mathematics, could turn his thoughts exclusively to the study of natural laws.
