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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th January
On this day in 1699, Gottfried von Leibniz became the first elected foreign member of the French Academy. Christiaan Huygens had been a member from the beginning.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1540: Ludolph Van Ceulen Ⓟ
- 1608: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Ⓟ
- 1611: Johannes Hevelius Ⓟ
- 1622: Adrien Auzout Ⓟ
- 1701: Charles-Marie de La Condamine Ⓟ
- 1851: Gomes Teixeira Ⓟ
- 1855: Karl Rohn Ⓟ
- 1888: Louis Mordell Ⓟ
- 1892: Carlo Bonferroni Ⓟ
- 1911: Robert Schatten
- 1922: Jan Kalicki
- 1924: Wilhelm Klingenberg Ⓟ
Died:
- 1687: Johannes Hevelius Ⓟ
- 1688: Ferdinand Verbiest Ⓟ
- 1864: Émile Clapeyron Ⓟ
- 1889: Joseph-Émile Barbier
- 1910: Alfredo Capelli Ⓟ
- 1935: Gustav von Escherich Ⓟ
- 1946: Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov Ⓟ
- 1954: Ernest Esclangon Ⓟ
- 1985: Leopold Pars Ⓟ
- 1988: Klaus Fuchs Ⓟ
- 2009: William Moser Ⓟ
- 2011: Alison Falconer Ⓟ
- 2012: Horst Tietz Ⓟ
- 2018: Sunday Iyahen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Louis Mordell
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.
