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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th April
On this day in 1892, Hermite wrote to Stieltjes: -
You state this result and then try to mortify me by saying that it is easy to prove. Since I can't succeed in doing it I appeal to your good nature to help me out of this difficulty.The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1832: Robert Tucker Ⓟ
- 1874: Edward Huntington Ⓟ
- 1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein Ⓟ
- 1898: William Kermack Ⓟ
- 1922: Asger Aaboe Ⓟ
Died:
- 1876: Osip Somov Ⓟ
- 1902: Lazarus Fuchs Ⓟ
- 1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan Ⓟ
- 1946: Louis Bachelier Ⓟ
- 1951: Arnold Sommerfeld Ⓟ
- 1976: Carl Boyer Ⓟ
- 1994: Haim Nessyahu Ⓟ
- 2011: Hans Wussing Ⓟ
- 2014: Jacqueline Ferrand Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even when all the possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.
