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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th March
On this day in 1791, the metric system, including the decimal subdivision of the circle, was advocated in a report made to the Paris Academy of Sciences. The committee consisted of Borda, Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Condorcet.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
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Born:
- 1856: Józef Puzyna Ⓟ
- 1862: Adolf Kneser Ⓟ
- 1910: Jacob Wolfowitz Ⓟ
Died:
- 1685: René de Sluze Ⓟ
- 1922: George Mathews Ⓟ
- 1938: Marius Lacombe Ⓟ
- 1978: Gaston Julia Ⓟ
- 1984: Richard Bellman Ⓟ
- 1987: Louis de Broglie Ⓟ
- 1990: Wilhelm Flügge Ⓟ
- 1996: Chen Jingrun Ⓟ
- 2018: Chaim Samuel Hönig Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Louis de Broglie
There is no reason why the history and philosophy of science should not be taught in such a way as to bring home to all pupils the grandeur of science and the scope of its discoveries.
