MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
10th April
On this day in 1661 Robert Hooke's first paper on capillary action was read to the "Society for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning". He showed that the narrower the tube, the higher water rose in it.
A year later the Society became the Royal Society.
A year later the Society became the Royal Society.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1651: Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Ⓟ
- 1756: John West
- 1825: Charles MacKenzie Ⓟ
- 1832: Georg Zehfuss Ⓟ
- 1838: Frank Baldwin Ⓟ
- 1857: Henry Ernest Dudeney Ⓟ
- 1905: Eižens Leimanis Ⓟ
Died:
- 1813: Joseph-Louis Lagrange Ⓟ
- 1911: Samuel Loyd Ⓟ
- 1930: William Story Ⓟ
- 1967: Oscar Chisini Ⓟ
- 1988: Annie Hutton Numbers Ⓟ
- 2011: David Hayes Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Joseph-Louis Lagrange
I regard as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of applications that one must study them; one judges their ability there and one apprises the manner of making use of them.
