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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.
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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 Adolphe Quetelet
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
