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Mathematicians Of The Day
21st January
On this day in 1665, Samuel Pepys, having acquired a copy of Robert Hooke's Micrographia the day before, stayed up to read it,
Before I went to bed I sat up till two o'clock in my chamber reading of Mr Hooke's Microscopicall Observations, the most ingenious book that ever I read in my life.
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Born:
- 1793: Théodore Olivier Ⓟ
- 1846: Pieter Hendrik Schoute Ⓟ
- 1860: David Eugene Smith Ⓟ
- 1874: René Baire Ⓟ
- 1897: Alexander Weinstein Ⓟ
- 1915: André Lichnerowicz Ⓟ
- 1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik Ⓟ
- 1923: Henri Cabannes Ⓟ
- 1942: Francisco González Acuña Ⓟ
Died:
- 1892: John Couch Adams Ⓟ
- 1931: Cesare Burali-Forti Ⓟ
- 1937: Donald Macmillan
- 1946: Harry Bateman Ⓟ
- 1957: Arthur Bowley Ⓟ
- 1974: Arnaud Denjoy Ⓟ
- 2004: John Lewis Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From René Baire
Generally speaking, in the framework of ideas that here concern us, every problem in the theory of functions leads to certain questions in the theory of sets, and it is to the degree that these latter questions are resolved, that it is possible to solve the given problem more or less completely.
