Mathematicians Of The Day
27th September
On this day in 1822 Jean-Francoise Champollion announced his major breakthrough in deciphering the Rosetta stone in a paper to the Academy of Inscriptions and in the following month he published a complete list of signs of both hieroglyphics and demotics with their Greek equivalents.
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Born:
- 1677: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr Ⓟ
- 1719: Abraham Kästner Ⓟ
- 1725: Patrick d'Arcy Ⓟ
- 1843: Gaston Tarry Ⓟ
- 1855: Paul Appell Ⓟ
- 1876: Earle Raymond Hedrick Ⓟ
- 1879: Hans Hahn Ⓟ
- 1889: Henry Forder Ⓟ
- 1892: Mikhail Krawtchouk Ⓟ
- 1893: Mohammed Reda Madwar Ⓟ
- 1904: Demetrios Kappos Ⓟ
- 1919: Jim Wilkinson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1783: Étienne Bézout Ⓟ
- 1964: Pia Nalli Ⓟ
- 1997: William Edge Ⓟ
- 2007: Moshe Carmeli Ⓟ
- 2009: Alice T Schafer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Edge
Algebra exists only for the elucidation of geometry.