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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th February
On this day in 1987, a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud occurred visible to the naked eye. It was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova in 1604, which occurred in the Milky Way itself.
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Born:
- 1868: James Craig
- 1878: Felix Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1909: Max Black Ⓟ
- 1918: Geoffrey Kneebone Ⓟ
- 1920: Sree Pillai Ⓟ
- 1921: Marília Peixoto Ⓟ
- 1932: Siobhán Vernon Ⓟ
- 1946: Gregori Margulis Ⓟ
Died:
- 1728: Charles René Reyneau
- 1812: Étienne Louis Malus Ⓟ
- 1844: Antoine-André-Louis Reynaud
- 1856: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Ⓟ
- 1871: Julius Weisbach Ⓟ
- 1929: Mauritz Dahlin Ⓟ
- 1933: Eugenio Bertini Ⓟ
- 1954: Fabio Conforto Ⓟ
- 1974: Glenny Smeal
- 2001: Claude E Shannon Ⓟ
- 2020: Katherine Johnson Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
