Mathematicians Of The Day
24th September
On this day in 2017, Maryna Viazovska was given a Clay Research Award in recognition of her groundbreaking work on sphere-packing problems in eight and twenty-four dimensions. In particular, she proved that the lattice is an optimal solution in eight dimensions.
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Born:
- 1501: Girolamo Cardano Ⓟ
- 1625: Jan de Witt Ⓟ
- 1766: John Farey Ⓟ
- 1801: Mikhail Vasilevich Ostrogradski Ⓟ
- 1844: Max Noether Ⓟ
- 1861: Robert Fricke
- 1862: Winifred Edgerton Merrill Ⓟ
- 1894: Werner Rogosinski Ⓟ
- 1896: Tadeusz Ważewski Ⓟ
- 1904: Evan (Ianto) Davies Ⓟ
- 1911: Menahem Schiffer Ⓟ
- 1923: Raoul Bott Ⓟ
Died:
- 1054: Hermann of Reichenau Ⓟ
- 1651: Étienne Pascal
- 1938: Lev Shnirelman Ⓟ
- 1967: Pauline Sperry Ⓟ
- 1989: Åke Pleijel Ⓟ
- 1999: Anneli Lax Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Girolamo Cardano
Quinquies exscriptus, maneat tot millibus annis.
I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia.