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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.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1468: Johann Werner Ⓟ
- 1839: Hermann Hankel Ⓟ
- 1848: Édouard Benjamin Baillaud Ⓟ
- 1868: William Leslie Thomson
- 1888: Robert Remak Ⓟ
- 1896: Arthur Milne Ⓟ
- 1898: Fritz Zwicky Ⓟ
- 1926: Henry Dye Ⓟ
- 1932: Maurice Audin Ⓟ
- 1954: Vladimir Drinfeld Ⓟ
Died:
- 1744: John Hadley Ⓟ
- 1894: Eugène Catalan Ⓟ
- 1943: David Hilbert Ⓟ
- 2001: Helmut Wielandt Ⓟ
- 2007: James Eells Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From David Hilbert
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
