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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd February
On this day in 1883 the preliminary meeting to set up the Edinburgh Mathematical Society was held.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2004 Google released a Gaston Julia doodle (a day early) and on this day in 2020 they released a Somerville doodle (to celebrate when her 1826 paper was read to the Royal Society).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2004 Google released a Gaston Julia doodle (a day early) and on this day in 2020 they released a Somerville doodle (to celebrate when her 1826 paper was read to the Royal Society).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1522: Lodovico Ferrari
- 1765: Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky Ⓟ
- 1786: Jacques Binet Ⓟ
- 1793: William Hopkins Ⓟ
- 1842: Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotsky Ⓟ
- 1849: Leopold Gegenbauer Ⓟ
- 1860: August Gutzmer Ⓟ
- 1865: Rosenberg, Fabian
- 1870: Henri Fehr Ⓟ
- 1881: Gustav Herglotz Ⓟ
- 1882: Joseph Wedderburn Ⓟ
- 1893: Cornelius Lanczos Ⓟ
- 1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski Ⓟ
- 1897: Gertrude Blanch Ⓟ
- 1903: Bartel van der Waerden Ⓟ
- 1922: Shmuel Agmon Ⓟ
Died:
- 1612: Christopher Clavius Ⓟ
- 1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital Ⓟ
- 1841: Olinthus Gregory Ⓟ
- 1911: Charles Méray Ⓟ
- 1950: Constantin Carathéodory Ⓟ
- 1965: Neville Watson Ⓟ
- 1970: Bertrand Russell Ⓟ
- 1971: Yurii Sokolov Ⓟ
- 1974: Imre Lakatos Ⓟ
- 2005: Edward Maitland Wright Ⓟ
- 2025: Vicki Powers Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not, in this subject, deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about "any" thing or "any" property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two, because, in our capacity of logicians or pure mathematicians, we have never heard of Socrates or Plato. A world in which there were no such individuals would still be a world in which one and one are two. It is not open to us, as pure mathematicians or logicians, to mention anything at all, because, if we do so we introduce something irrelevant and not formal.
