Mathematicians Of The Day

29th August



On this day in 1831, Michael Faraday discovered his law of electrical induction.

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Quotation of the day

From Hermann Hankel
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established, another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new storey to the old structure.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)