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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.
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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 Bernard de Fontenelle
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
