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Mathematicians Of The Day
27th April
On this day in 1657 Christiaan Huygens published De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae [Reasoning in games of chance] on the calculus of probabilities, the first printed work on the subject.
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Born:
- 1755: Antoine Parseval
- 1837: Paul Gordan Ⓟ
- 1920: Mark Krasnosel'skii Ⓟ
- 1932: Gian-Carlo Rota Ⓟ
Died:
- 1928: Georgios Remoundos Ⓟ
- 1936: Karl Pearson Ⓟ
- 1941: Karl Reinhardt Ⓟ
- 1952: Guido Castelnuovo Ⓟ
- 1957: George Jeffery Ⓟ
- 1960: Frank Jackson
- 1978: Guido Stampacchia Ⓟ
- 1979: Gheorghe Vrănceanu Ⓟ
- 2013: Norman Routledge Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gian-Carlo Rota
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?
