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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th May
On this day in 1787, Joseph-Louis Lagrange left Berlin to become a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris, where he remained for the rest of his career. He had worked in Berlin for more than 20 years.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Khayyam doodle and in 2019 they released another.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1996.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Khayyam doodle and in 2019 they released another.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1996.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1048: Omar Khayyam Ⓟ
- 1711: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Ⓟ
- 1850: Oliver Heaviside Ⓟ
- 1852: Samuel Saunder
- 1853: Albert Badoureau Ⓟ
- 1872: Bertrand Russell Ⓟ
- 1914: Stefan Schwarz Ⓟ
- 1937: Horace Mochizuki
- 1944: James Arthur Ⓟ
- 1946: Celia Hoyles Ⓟ
Died:
- 1924: Corrado Segre Ⓟ
- 1954: Selig Brodetsky Ⓟ
- 1965: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis Ⓟ
- 1971: Aleksandr G Kurosh Ⓟ
- 2024: Tom Blyth Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
Physics is mathematical, not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little. It is only the mathematical properties that we can discover.
