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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.
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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 Ⓟ
- 2012: Horst Tietz Ⓟ
- 2018: Sunday Iyahen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Louis Mordell
I am the world's worst good bridge player.
