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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd April
On this day in 1753, Leonard Euler wrote to Christian Goldbach to say that he had confirmed Goldbach's conjecture that every odd integer could be written as with p a prime for the first 2500 integers. A hundred years later, Moritz Stern found two counterexamples: 5777 and 5993.
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Born:
- 1832: Wilhelm Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1835: Howard Van Amringe Ⓟ
- 1859: Karl Heun Ⓟ
- 1892: Hans Rademacher Ⓟ
- 1900: Albert Ingham Ⓟ
- 1907: Mark Krein Ⓟ
- 1913: Jan Mikusiński Ⓟ
- 1937: Enrique Planchart Ⓟ
Died:
- 1472: Leone Battista Alberti Ⓟ
- 1718: Jacques Ozanam
- 1888: Axel Harnack Ⓟ
- 1900: Joseph Bertrand Ⓟ
- 1974: Andor Kertész Ⓟ
- 1993: Leopoldo Nachbin Ⓟ
- 1998: Mary Cartwright Ⓟ
- 2018: David Foulis Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Joseph Bertrand
How dare we speak of the laws of chance? Is not chance the antithesis of all law?
