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Mathematicians Of The Day
12th January
On this day in 1820, the Astronomical Society (it only became the "Royal Astronomical Society" somewhat later) was founded, when fourteen founder members, including Babbage and Herschel, met for dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
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Born:
- 1853: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro Ⓟ
- 1894: William Arthur Ⓟ
- 1899: Badri Nath Prasad
- 1906: Kurt Hirsch Ⓟ
- 1907: Edwin Maxwell Ⓟ
- 1914: Emilio Baiada Ⓟ
- 1915: Herbert Robbins Ⓟ
- 1946: Jean-Louis Loday Ⓟ
Died:
- 1665: Pierre Fermat Ⓟ
- 1849: James Thomson Ⓟ
- 1909: Hermann Minkowski Ⓟ
- 1960: Pedro Puig Adam Ⓟ
- 1984: Warren Brothers
- 1996: Bartel van der Waerden Ⓟ
- 2004: Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya Ⓟ
- 2018: Jean-Louis Koszul Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Pierre Fermat
Whenever two unknown magnitudes appear in a final equation, we have a locus, the extremity of one of the unknown magnitudes describing a straight line or a curve.
