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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.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Khayyam doodle and in 2019 they released another.
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Born:
- 1048: Omar Khayyam Ⓟ
- 1711: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich Ⓟ
- 1850: Oliver Heaviside Ⓟ
- 1853: Albert Badoureau Ⓟ
- 1872: Bertrand Russell Ⓟ
- 1914: Stefan Schwarz Ⓟ
- 1937: Horace Mochizuki
- 1946: Celia Hoyles Ⓟ
Died:
- 1924: Corrado Segre Ⓟ
- 1954: Selig Brodetsky Ⓟ
- 1965: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis Ⓟ
- 1971: Aleksandr G Kurosh Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
