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Mathematicians Of The Day
13th February
In the early hours of this day 1535, inspiration came to Niccolò Tartaglia and he discovered a method of solving 'squares and cubes equal to numbers'. (That is equations of the form ). This allowed him to win his contest against Fior in Venice. See THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1983.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1983.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1805: Lejeune Dirichlet Ⓟ
- 1882: Tadeusz Banachiewicz Ⓟ
- 1890: Glenny Smeal
- 1891: Ivan Ivanovich Privalov Ⓟ
- 1900: Abraham Plessner Ⓟ
- 1906: Edward Maitland Wright Ⓟ
- 1913: Israel Everett Glover Ⓟ
- 1926: Tonny Springer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1787: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Ⓟ
- 1874: Franz Adolph Taurinus
- 1912: Francis Bashforth Ⓟ
- 1926: Francis Edgeworth Ⓟ
- 1947: Erich Hecke Ⓟ
- 1956: Jan Łukasiewicz Ⓟ
- 1976: Thomas Flett Ⓟ
- 1980: Marian Rejewski Ⓟ
- 1987: Eizens Arins Ⓟ
- 1992: Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov Ⓟ
- 1997: Mark Krasnosel'skii Ⓟ
- 2006: Donald Higman
- 2013: Akos Seress Ⓟ
- 2015: Albert Nijenhuis Ⓟ
- 2016: Chris Zeeman Ⓟ
- 2022: Aderemi Kuku Ⓟ
- 2023: David Singmaster Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Homo hominem arreptum a Tellure, et ubicumque exigua impulsum vi vel une etiam oris flatu impetitum, ab hominum omnium commercio in infinitum expelleret, nunquam per totam aeternitatem rediturum.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
