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Mathematicians Of The Day
16th February
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Born:
- 1514: Georg Joachim Rheticus
- 1698: Pierre Bouguer Ⓟ
- 1822: Francis Galton Ⓟ
- 1891: Nikoloz Muskhelishvili Ⓟ
- 1903: Beniamino Segre Ⓟ
- 1903: Geoffrey Timms Ⓟ
- 1905: Tiberiu Popoviciu Ⓟ
- 1908: Guglielmo Righini Ⓟ
- 1937: Yuri Ivanovich Manin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1637: Henry Gellibrand Ⓟ
- 1892: Thomas Hirst Ⓟ
- 1971: Rex Tims
- 1976: Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh Ⓟ
- 1977: Rózsa Péter Ⓟ
- 1980: Edward Copson Ⓟ
- 1999: James McConnell Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Francis Galton
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified,if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement,amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshaled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.
