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Mathematicians Of The Day
16th March
On this day in 1916 Srinivasa Ramanujan graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts by Research (the degree was called a Ph.D. from 1920). He had been allowed to enrol in June 1914 despite not having the proper qualifications. Ramanujan's dissertation was on Highly composite numbers and consisted of seven of his papers published in England.
On this day in 2016 Google released an Caroline Herschel doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1991.
On this day in 2016 Google released an Caroline Herschel doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1991.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1750: Caroline Herschel Ⓟ
- 1789: Georg Simon Ohm Ⓟ
- 1821: Eduard Heine Ⓟ
- 1846: Gösta Mittag-Leffler Ⓟ
- 1860: Sidney Luxton Loney Ⓟ
- 1915: Kunihiko Kodaira Ⓟ
- 1947: Uriel Rothblum Ⓟ
Died:
- 1838: Nathaniel Bowditch Ⓟ
- 1841: Félix Savart Ⓟ
- 1922: George Halsted Ⓟ
- 1933: Alfréd Haar Ⓟ
- 1940: Thomas Heath Ⓟ
- 1941: Edward Ince Ⓟ
- 1980: William Prager Ⓟ
- 1992: Yves Rocard Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gösta Mittag-Leffler
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.
