Mathematicians Of The Day

11th January



On this day in 1787, William Herschel discovered the first two moons of Uranus: Titania and Oberon. In fact he discovered Oberon before spotting Titania. It is now known that Uranus has 27 satellites, most of which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1968.

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Quotation of the day

From Michael Atiyah
The most useful piece of advice I would give to a mathematics student is always to suspect an impressive sounding Theorem if it does not have a special case which is both simple and non-trivial.