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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st April
On this day in 1975, Martin Gardner published an April's Fool hoax in Scientific American which claimed that Ramanujan had conjectured in a 1914 paper that is an integer. In fact it is 262 537 412 640 768 743.9999999999992500 ...
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2016.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2016.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1617: Seth Ward Ⓟ
- 1640: Georg Mohr
- 1776: Sophie Germain Ⓟ
- 1801: Henry Perigal Ⓟ
- 1835: James Moriarty Ⓟ
- 1874: Ernest William Barnes Ⓟ
- 1879: Antoni Hoborski Ⓟ
- 1895: Alec Aitken Ⓟ
- 1916: Sheila Edmonds Ⓟ
- 1935: Bronius Grigelionis Ⓟ
- 1947: Alain Connes Ⓟ
Died:
- 1863: Jakob Steiner Ⓟ
- 1872: Martin Ohm Ⓟ
- 1921: Carl Johannes Thomae Ⓟ
- 1930: George Gibson Ⓟ
- 1968: Lev Landau Ⓟ
- 1998: Mary Warner Ⓟ
- 2003: Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lev Landau
Cosmologists are often wrong, but never in doubt.
