Mathematicians Of The Day

25th December



Because of the difference between the Gregorian and the Julian calendars, in England, Christmas Day 1642 was celebrated on Newton's birthday. We have taken his birthday as 4th January 1643.

On this day in 1656 Huygens (who was a bachelor) spent Christmas Day making the first model of a pendulum clock.
See THIS LINK.

Click on for a poster.


Quotation of the day

From Willard Van Quine
[The state lottery is] a public subsidy of intelligence [since] it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
Quiddities.