MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
2nd January
On this day in 1851, George Boole wrote in a letter to James Thomson
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter ...
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Born:
- 1811: Li Shanlan Ⓟ
- 1822: Rudolf Clausius Ⓟ
- 1843: James Stuart Ⓟ
- 1896: Leopold Pars Ⓟ
- 1905: Lev Shnirelman Ⓟ
- 1931: James Murray Ⓟ
- 1938: Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko Ⓟ
- 1940: Srinivasa Varadhan Ⓟ
Died:
- 1889: Stephen Parkinson
- 1892: George Airy Ⓟ
- 1930: Charles Shirra Dougall Ⓟ
- 1952: Panagiotis Zervos Ⓟ
- 1992: Brian Kuttner Ⓟ
- 1992: Tibor Gallai Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Airy
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
