Mathematicians Of The Day
7th July
On this day in 1887, Michelson and Morley began the interferometer experiment to try to detect ether. Their result supported special relativity.
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Born:
- 1816: Rudolf Wolf Ⓟ
- 1845: Eduard Gubler Ⓟ
- 1883: Margaret Barr Moir
- 1888: Archibald Goldie
- 1901: Mary Simpson Ⓟ
- 1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin Ⓟ
- 1906: William Feller Ⓟ
- 1906: Gheorghe Mihoc Ⓟ
- 1922: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Marchenko Ⓟ
Died:
- 1900: Eduard Wiltheiss Ⓟ
- 1922: Jacques Bertillon Ⓟ
- 1927: Gösta Mittag-Leffler Ⓟ
- 1942: William Young Ⓟ
- 1967: Anatoly Malcev Ⓟ
- 1975: William Hodge Ⓟ
- 1982: Raymond Wilder Ⓟ
- 2014: Lars Gårding Ⓟ
- 2017: Marina Ratner Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Feller
Probability is a mathematical discipline whose aims are akin to those, for example, of geometry of analytical mechanics. In each field we must carefully distinguish three aspects of the theory:
(a) the formal logical content,
(b) the intuitive background,
(c) the applications.
The character, and the charm, of the whole structure cannot be appreciated without considering all three aspects in their proper relation.