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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 Ⓟ
- 1923: Boleslav Mlodzeevsky Ⓟ
- 1950: André Sainte-Laguë Ⓟ
- 1963: Edward Titchmarsh Ⓟ
- 1981: Rufus Isaacs Ⓟ
- 2011: John Herivel Ⓟ
- 2024: Seán Dineen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jacob Bronowski
Physics becomes in those years the greatest collective work of art of the twentieth century.
