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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.
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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 Thomas Heath
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader.
