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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th February
On this day in 1600, after a trial lasting seven years, Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the Campo de' Fiori in Rome. He was gagged so that onlookers would not be seduced by any of his heretical statements.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1974.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1974.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1723: Tobias Mayer Ⓟ
- 1765: James Ivory
- 1890: R A Fisher Ⓟ
- 1891: Abraham Fraenkel Ⓟ
- 1896: Evgeny Remez Ⓟ
- 1905: Rózsa Péter Ⓟ
- 1918: Jacqueline Ferrand Ⓟ
- 1950: Viktor Aleksandrovich Gorbunov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1600: Giordano Bruno Ⓟ
- 1874: Adolphe Quetelet Ⓟ
- 1947: Ettore Bortolotti Ⓟ
- 1964: Heinrich Tietze Ⓟ
- 2012: Nicolaas de Bruijn Ⓟ
- 2017: Magnus Wenninger Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From R A Fisher
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
