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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.
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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.
