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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th March
On this day in 1737, Leonard Euler presented his paper, De fractionibus continuis dissertatio (Essay on continued fractions), to the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. With the exception of a few isolated results which appeared in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of the elementary theory of continued fractions was developed in this paper.
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Born:
- 1792: John Herschel Ⓟ
- 1824: Delfino Codazzi
- 1870: Ernst Lindelöf Ⓟ
- 1886: Geoffrey Taylor Ⓟ
- 1893: Anna Mullikin Ⓟ
- 1895: Wilhelm Süss Ⓟ
- 1899: Maximilian Herzberger Ⓟ
- 1899: Henri Mineur Ⓟ
- 1905: John Whittaker Ⓟ
- 1919: Lars Gårding Ⓟ
- 1922: Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya Ⓟ
- 1928: Norman Routledge Ⓟ
Died:
- 1889: Angelo Genocchi Ⓟ
- 1922: Axel Thue Ⓟ
- 1943: Patrick Hardie
- 1958: John Womersley Ⓟ
- 1964: Samuel Wilks Ⓟ
- 1966: Georg Faber Ⓟ
- 1984: Charles Pisot Ⓟ
- 2008: David Gale Ⓟ
- 2011: Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets Ⓟ
- 2015: Daniel Akyeampong Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Herschel
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which occur, has within itself an inexhaustible source of pure and exciting contemplations.
