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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th January
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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 Jacob Bernoulli
We define the art of conjecture, or stochastic art, as the art of evaluating as exactly as possible the probabilities of things, so that in our judgments and actions we can always base ourselves on what has been found to be the best, the most appropriate, the most certain, the best advised; this is the only object of the wisdom of the philosopher and the prudence of the statesman.
