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Mathematicians Of The Day
28th April
On this day in 1693, Leibniz wrote to de L'Hôpital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not published until 1850 in his Mathematische Schriften.
On this day in 2016 Google released an Ayrton doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
On this day in 2016 Google released an Ayrton doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2005.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1765: Sylvestre Lacroix Ⓟ
- 1773: Robert Woodhouse
- 1831: P G Tait Ⓟ
- 1838: Jenő Hunyadi Ⓟ
- 1854: Hertha Marks Ayrton Ⓟ
- 1868: Georgy Voronoy Ⓟ
- 1882: Theodor Angheluță Ⓟ
- 1906: Kurt Gödel Ⓟ
- 1906: Richard Rado Ⓟ
- 1921: Iacopo Barsotti Ⓟ
- 1923: Fritz Ursell Ⓟ
- 1925: Gordon Preston Ⓟ
- 1937: David Fowler Ⓟ
Died:
- 1843: William Wallace Ⓟ
- 1903: J Willard Gibbs Ⓟ
- 1975: Hans Heilbronn Ⓟ
- 1986: R H Bing Ⓟ
- 2006: Fred Wright
- 2019: Maurício Peixoto Ⓟ
- 2020: Robert May Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From P G Tait
Perhaps to the student there is no part of elementary mathematics so repulsive as is spherical geometry.
