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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th January
On this day in 1787, William Herschel discovered the first two moon of Uranus: Titania and Oberon. In fact he discovered Oberon before spotting Titania.
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Born:
- 1545: Guidobaldo del Monte Ⓟ
- 1707: Vincenzo Riccati Ⓟ
- 1734: Achille-Pierre Dionis du Séjour Ⓟ
- 1825: William Spottiswoode Ⓟ
- 1826: Giuseppe Battaglini Ⓟ
- 1837: Hugh MacColl Ⓟ
- 1845: Victor Bäcklund Ⓟ
- 1938: Fischer Sheffey Black Ⓟ
Died:
- 1757: Louis Castel
- 1903: Henry Watson Ⓟ
- 1929: Micaiah Hill Ⓟ
- 1941: Emanuel Lasker Ⓟ
- 1946: J Watt Butters Ⓟ
- 1947: Edward Ross
- 1949: Torsten Carleman Ⓟ
- 2002: Shanti Swarup Gupta Ⓟ
- 2014: Zoltán Dienes Ⓟ
- 2019: Michael Atiyah Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Michael Atiyah
But for most practical purposes, you just use the classical groups. The exceptional Lie groups are just there to show you that the theory is a bit bigger; it is pretty rare that they ever turn up.
