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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th April
On this day in 1760, Euler wrote the first of 263 letters to Princess Charlotte Ludovica Luisa, later collected as Letters to a German Princess. In the first letter Euler promised to produce:-
... examples of the smallest as well as the greatest extensions of matter actually discoverable in the system of the universe.A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1748: Charles Tinseau
- 1846: Henry Heaton Ⓟ
- 1858: George Gibson Ⓟ
- 1880: Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky Ⓟ
- 1883: Richard von Mises Ⓟ
- 1885: Leonida Tonelli Ⓟ
- 1901: Kiyoshi Oka Ⓟ
- 1905: Charles Ehresmann Ⓟ
- 1909: Hugh Alexander Ⓟ
- 1923: Adegoke Olubummo Ⓟ
Died:
- 1567: Michael Stifel Ⓟ
- 1739: Nicholas Saunderson Ⓟ
- 1791: Richard Price Ⓟ
- 1881: Karl Peterson Ⓟ
- 1914: Charles S Peirce Ⓟ
- 1933: Ernest Hobson Ⓟ
- 1974: Alexander Dinghas Ⓟ
- 2013: Kenneth Appel Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Charles S Peirce
The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.
