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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd May
On this day in 1592, Giordano Bruno was arrested by the Venetian Inquisition for publicising "heretical" beliefs on the nature of the universe. After a trial lasting seven years he was burned alive in Rome.
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On this day in 2009 Google released a Chen Jingrun doodle
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2009 Google released a Chen Jingrun doodle
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1848: Hermann Schubert Ⓟ
- 1865: Alfred Dixon Ⓟ
- 1881: William Milne Ⓟ
- 1893: Bronisław Knaster Ⓟ
- 1903: Bertha Swirles Jeffreys Ⓟ
- 1903: Yves Rocard Ⓟ
- 1916: Albrecht Fröhlich Ⓟ
- 1927: Abdulalim Shabazz Ⓟ
- 1931: Czesław Olech Ⓟ
- 1933: Chen Jingrun Ⓟ
Died:
- 1815: William Spence Ⓟ
- 1868: Julius Plücker Ⓟ
- 1935: Sotero Prieto Ⓟ
- 1967: Josip Plemelj Ⓟ
- 1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Ⓟ
- 1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer Ⓟ
- 2009: Walter Ledermann Ⓟ
- 2010: Martin Gardner Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Derrick Henry Lehmer
The real difficulty lies in the fact that only a finite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin, whereas the mathematician is more apt to be interested in the infinite angel problem only.
