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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th June
On this day in 1659, Huygens wrote to Wallis about de Witt:-
In my opinion no century has been so abounding in mathematicians as ours, amongst whom this man even might have reached the first place, if he had been less occupied by his official duties.The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2017.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1436: Regiomontanus Ⓟ
- 1842: Henry Taylor Ⓟ
- 1857: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov Ⓟ
- 1882: Clement Durell
- 1906: Max Zorn Ⓟ
- 1920: Jeremiah Certaine
- 1933: Víctor Neumann-Lara Ⓟ
Died:
- 1888: Erastus De Forest Ⓟ
- 1898: Henry Perigal Ⓟ
- 1928: Luigi Bianchi Ⓟ
- 1943: Guido Fubini Ⓟ
- 1972: A Adrian Albert Ⓟ
- 1977: Stefan Bergman Ⓟ
- 1985: András Huhn Ⓟ
- 1998: G Leslie Frewin
- 2012: Jean-Louis Loday Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Regiomontanus
You, who wish to study great and wonderful things, who wonder about the movement of the stars, must read these theorems about triangles. Knowing these ideas will open the door to all of astronomy and to certain geometric problems.
