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Mathematicians Of The Day
15th September
On this day in 1739 Leonard Euler wrote to Johann Bernoulli on the general treatment of the homogeneous linear differential equation with constant coefficients. Within a year Euler had completed this treatment.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 973: Al-Biruni Ⓟ
- 1852: Edward Bouchet Ⓟ
- 1857: Anna Winlock Ⓟ
- 1883: Esteban Terradas Ⓟ
- 1886: Paul Lévy Ⓟ
- 1889: Jekuthiel Ginsburg Ⓟ
- 1894: Oskar Klein Ⓟ
- 1901: Luigi Fantappiè Ⓟ
- 1923: Georg Kreisel Ⓟ
- 1926: Jean-Pierre Serre Ⓟ
Died:
- 1883: Joseph Plateau Ⓟ
- 1943: Andrew Jeffrey Gunion Barclay Ⓟ
- 1947: Annie Scott Dill Maunder Ⓟ
- 1978: William Guthrie
- 1998: Cândido Silva Dias Ⓟ
- 2003: Alexander Ivanovich Skopin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Al-Biruni
[On the science and culture of the Hindus] I can only compare their astronomical and mathematical literature ... to a mixture of pearl shells and sour dates, or of costly crystals and common pebbles. Both kinds of things are equal in their eyes, since they cannot rise themselves to the methods of strictly scientific deduction.
