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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 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.
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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 George Berkeley
Esse est percipi.
To be is to be perceived.
