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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
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
