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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th February
On this day in 1935, the opera: The Necklace of the Sun : A Mayan Drama by the number theorist Derrick Norman Lehmer had its premiere at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, Oakland. It was also performed in San Francisco.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1552: Jost Bürgi Ⓟ
- 1735: Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde
- 1803: Christian Heinrich von Nagel Ⓟ
- 1846: Oskar Fabian Ⓟ
- 1859: Florian Cajori Ⓟ
- 1861: John Alison
- 1878: Pierre Fatou Ⓟ
- 1889: Hyman Levy Ⓟ
- 1894: Agnes Scott
- 1925: Louis Nirenberg Ⓟ
- 1954: Jean Bourgain Ⓟ
Died:
- 1742: Willem 'sGravesande Ⓟ
- 1863: Jakob Kulik Ⓟ
- 1932: Guillaume Bigourdan Ⓟ
- 1956: Frigyes Riesz Ⓟ
- 1991: Wassily Hoeffding Ⓟ
- 2010: Cecilia Berdichevsky Ⓟ
- 2014: Lee Lorch Ⓟ
- 2020: Freeman Dyson Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Freeman Dyson
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.
