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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.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1972.
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
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
