Mathematicians Of The Day

18th February



On this day in 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. Tombaugh wrote:-
... I suddenly came upon the images of Pluto! The experience was an intense thrill, because the nature of the object was apparent at first sight.
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On this day in 2013 Google released an Nasir al-Tusi doodle.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.

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Quotation of the day

From Eugenio Beltrami
Students should learn to study at an early stage the great works of the great masters instead of making their minds sterile through the everlasting exercises of college, which are of no use whatever, except to produce a new Arcadia where indolence is veiled under the form of useless activity. ... Hard study on the great models has ever brought out the strong; and of such must be our new scientific generation if it is to be worthy of the era to which it is born and of the struggles to which it is destined.