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.

Click on for a poster.


Quotation of the day

From Bertrand Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
A History of Western Philosophy