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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd January
On this day in 1851, George Boole wrote in a letter to William 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 ...The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1984.
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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 Ⓟ
- 1981: Cora Ratto de Sadosky Ⓟ
- 1992: Brian Kuttner Ⓟ
- 1992: Tibor Gallai Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Rudolf Clausius
Die Energie der Welt ist konstant. Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu.
The energy of the world is constant. its entropy tends to a maximum.
