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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th January
On this day in 1858, Arthur Cayley's A Memoir on the Theory of Matrices was read at the the Royal Society. Cayley established rules of notation and operations for these newly emerging ideas in mathematics. This paper also contained the first formal statement of what we now call the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2023.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2023.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1819: James Cockle Ⓟ
- 1887: Hugo Steinhaus Ⓟ
- 1901: Alfred Tarski Ⓟ
- 1924: Linards Reiziņš Ⓟ
- 1939: Fatma Moalla Ⓟ
- 1948: Ricardo Mañé Ⓟ
Died:
- 1679: Jacques de Billy Ⓟ
- 1687: Nicolaus Mercator Ⓟ
- 1742: Edmond Halley Ⓟ
- 1753: George Berkeley Ⓟ
- 1814: Charles Bossut Ⓟ
- 1898: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Ⓟ
- 1901: Charles Hermite Ⓟ
- 1905: Ernst Abbe Ⓟ
- 1912: Arnold Droz-Farny
- 1914: Benjamin Osgood Peirce Ⓟ
- 1931: William Johnson Ⓟ
- 1970: William Feller Ⓟ
- 1978: Kurt Gödel Ⓟ
- 2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alfred Tarski
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
