6th January

Mathematicians Of The Day

6th January

On this day in 1699, Newton wrote to Flamsteed, about Bernoulli's challenge of the brachistochrone problem, "I do not love to be dunned [pestered] and teased by foreigners about mathematical things."
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.

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Born:

1561: Thomas Fincke Ⓟ
1655: Jacob Bernoulli Ⓟ
1807: Józeph Petzval Ⓟ
1841: Rudolf Sturm Ⓟ
1883: Francisco José Duarte Ⓟ
1926: Walter Hayman Ⓟ
1934: William Browder Ⓟ

Died:

1607: Guidobaldo del Monte Ⓟ
1689: Seth Ward Ⓟ
1826: John Farey Ⓟ
1886: Jean Claude Saint-Venant Ⓟ
1918: Georg Cantor Ⓟ
1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Ⓟ
1922: Jakob Rosanes Ⓟ
1930: Eduard Study Ⓟ
1943: James Wattie
1953: Giovanni Vacca Ⓟ
1955: John Mackie
1997: Göran Borg

Quotation of the day

From Georg Cantor

My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will quickly return to the archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

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