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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th January
On this day in 1711, James Stirling matriculated at Balliol College Oxford. His Jacobite sympathies did not allow him to swear an oath of loyalty to the crown and so ultimately he was unable to graduate.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1853: Fabian Franklin Ⓟ
- 1856: Luigi Bianchi Ⓟ
- 1880: Paul Ehrenfest Ⓟ
- 1901: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky Ⓟ
- 1908: Jacob Bronowski Ⓟ
- 1927: Gyula Maurer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1873: Charles Dupin Ⓟ
- 1950: André Sainte-Laguë Ⓟ
- 1963: Edward Titchmarsh Ⓟ
- 1981: Rufus Isaacs Ⓟ
- 2011: John Herivel Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Edward Titchmarsh
I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.
