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Mathematicians Of The Day
5th March
On this day in 1616, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, the chief theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, issued a decree which declared Copernicanism false and erroneous. When Galileo subsequently ignored the decree, he was put on trial and held under house arrest for the final eight years of his life.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Mercator doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Mercator doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1512: Gerard Mercator Ⓟ
- 1574: William Oughtred Ⓟ
- 1624: John Collins Ⓟ
- 1779: Benjamin Gompertz Ⓟ
- 1817: Angelo Genocchi Ⓟ
- 1842: Heinrich Weber Ⓟ
- 1872: Gustave Dumas Ⓟ
- 1880: Sergei Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1885: Pauline Sperry Ⓟ
- 1887: Otto Haupt Ⓟ
- 1915: Laurent Schwartz Ⓟ
- 1917: István Fenyő Ⓟ
- 1924: Ottó Steinfeld Ⓟ
- 1931: Vera Pless Ⓟ
- 1937: Ron Book
- 1957: David Donoho Ⓟ
- 1960: 'Mamphono Khaketla Ⓟ
Died:
- 1827: Pierre-Simon Laplace Ⓟ
- 1875: Claude-Louis Mathieu Ⓟ
- 1925: Johan Ludwig Jensen Ⓟ
- 1927: Franz Mertens Ⓟ
- 1930: Christine Ladd-Franklin Ⓟ
- 1954: Julian Coolidge Ⓟ
- 1973: Margaret Hilary Ashworth Millington Ⓟ
- 1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch Ⓟ
- 2013: James Clunie Ⓟ
- 2018: Clarence Francis Stephens Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Julian Coolidge
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
