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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th February
Since today is St Valentine's day, here are some appropriate curves: the Cardioid or another heart-shaped curve or yet another one.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1468: Johann Werner Ⓟ
- 1839: Hermann Hankel Ⓟ
- 1848: Édouard Benjamin Baillaud Ⓟ
- 1868: William Leslie Thomson
- 1888: Robert Remak Ⓟ
- 1896: E A Milne Ⓟ
- 1898: Fritz Zwicky Ⓟ
- 1926: Henry Dye Ⓟ
- 1932: Maurice Audin Ⓟ
- 1954: Vladimir Drinfeld Ⓟ
Died:
- 1744: John Hadley Ⓟ
- 1894: Eugène Catalan Ⓟ
- 1943: David Hilbert Ⓟ
- 1991: José Adem Ⓟ
- 2001: Helmut Wielandt Ⓟ
- 2007: James Eells Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From David Hilbert
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
