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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.
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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 Ⓟ
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.
