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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd February
On this day in 1851, Léon Foucault demonstrated his pendulum in the Paris Observatory. The demonstration was a complete success. A paper by Foucault on his pendulum was read by Arago to the Academy of Sciences on the same day as the experiment was carried out in the Observatory.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1994.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1774: Karl Mollweide
- 1893: Gaston Julia Ⓟ
- 1898: Pavel Urysohn Ⓟ
- 1905: Arne Beurling Ⓟ
Died:
- 1737: Tommaso Ceva Ⓟ
- 1831: William Trail Ⓟ
- 1862: Jean-Baptiste Biot Ⓟ
- 1923: Adam Günther Ⓟ
- 1925: Oliver Heaviside Ⓟ
- 1929: Agner Erlang Ⓟ
- 1940: John Henry Michell Ⓟ
- 1943: Earle Raymond Hedrick Ⓟ
- 1956: Émile Borel Ⓟ
- 1964: Clarence Lewis Ⓟ
- 1969: Xiong Qinglai Ⓟ
- 2024: Francesco de Giovanni Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Oliver Heaviside
There is no absolute scale of size in the Universe, for it is boundless towards the great and also boundless towards the small.
