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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th January
On this day in 1734, Georges Buffon was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2018.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2018.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1795: Charles Whish
- 1864: Vladimir A Steklov Ⓟ
- 1873: Hans Blichfeldt Ⓟ
- 1889: Percy Daniell Ⓟ
- 1915: Mollie Orshansky Ⓟ
- 1923: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov Ⓟ
- 1930: Jacob T Schwartz Ⓟ
- 1938: Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam Ⓟ
- 1974: Talitha Washington Ⓟ
Died:
- 1586: Paul Wittich
- 1757: Bernard de Fontenelle Ⓟ
- 1799: Maria Agnesi Ⓟ
- 1848: Caroline Herschel Ⓟ
- 1939: Fabian Franklin Ⓟ
- 1942: Jerzy Rozycki Ⓟ
- 1962: Lajos Dávid Ⓟ
- 1973: Harry Vandiver Ⓟ
- 1975: Petr Sergeevich Novikov Ⓟ
- 1989: Marshall Stone Ⓟ
- 2005: Rimhak Ree Ⓟ
- 2012: Herbert Pahlings Ⓟ
- 2023: Mikio Sato Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Marshall Stone
For Bourbaki, Poincaré was the devil incarnate. For students of chaos and fractals, Poincaré is of course God on Earth.
