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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th January
On this day in 1929, Edwin Hubble published his classic paper, A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae, showing the universe is expanding, in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1847.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1847.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1647: Elisabetha Koopman Ⓟ
- 1706: Benjamin Franklin Ⓟ
- 1847: Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii Ⓟ
- 1858: Gabriel Koenigs Ⓟ
- 1868: Louis Couturat Ⓟ
- 1889: Ralph Fowler Ⓟ
- 1900: Edward Collingwood Ⓟ
- 1905: D R Kaprekar Ⓟ
- 1911: Dov Jarden Ⓟ
- 1913: Shaun Wylie Ⓟ
- 1918: Ivan Vidav Ⓟ
- 1923: Blagoj Popov Ⓟ
- 1930: James Ezeilo Ⓟ
Died:
- 1618: Luca Valerio
- 1775: Vincenzo Riccati Ⓟ
- 1881: Humphrey Lloyd Ⓟ
- 1911: Francis Galton Ⓟ
- 1954: Leonard Dickson Ⓟ
- 2013: Beauregard Stubblefield Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Benjamin Franklin
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
