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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.
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Born:
- 1875: Issai Schur Ⓟ
- 1899: Szolem Mandelbrojt Ⓟ
- 1905: Ruth Moufang Ⓟ
- 1906: Rafael Laguardia Ⓟ
- 1906: Grigore Moisil Ⓟ
- 1922: Douglas Jones Ⓟ
- 1938: Donald Knuth Ⓟ
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
It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
