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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th January
On this day in 1844, George Boole submitted a paper to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. One referee rejected it, the other recommended a special prize. This paper was the first mathematics paper to receive the Royal Medal from the Royal Society.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1875: Issai Schur Ⓟ
- 1899: Szolem Mandelbrojt Ⓟ
- 1905: Ruth Moufang Ⓟ
- 1906: Rafael Laguardia Ⓟ
- 1906: Grigore Moisil Ⓟ
- 1922: Douglas Jones Ⓟ
- 1938: Donald Knuth Ⓟ
- 1943: Richard Hamilton Ⓟ
Died:
- 1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre Ⓟ
- 1843: Louis Puissant Ⓟ
- 1929: Karl Heun Ⓟ
- 1941: Issai Schur Ⓟ
- 1944: Thomas Scott Fiske Ⓟ
- 1976: Alexander Buchan
- 1984: Stephen Bosanquet Ⓟ
- 1998: Wolfgang Hahn Ⓟ
- 2014: David Cariolaro Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Adrien-Marie Legendre
These ... tables (values of trigonometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.
