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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th June
On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein published his analysis of Planck's quantum theory and its application to light. It was for this work that Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1921.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1669: Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky Ⓟ
- 1786: William Horner
- 1885: J E Littlewood Ⓟ
- 1906: Cyril Offord Ⓟ
- 1909: Wade Ellis Ⓟ
- 1912: Gerald Whitrow Ⓟ
- 1913: Muriel Wales Ⓟ
Died:
- 1751: John Machin Ⓟ
- 1852: Leopold Karl Schulz von Strassnitzki Ⓟ
- 1910: Louis Raffy
- 1933: Edward Langley Ⓟ
- 1969: Harold Davenport Ⓟ
- 1977: Gustav Doetsch Ⓟ
- 1989: Horace Mochizuki
- 1994: Jan Tinbergen Ⓟ
- 1995: Vivienne Malone-Mayes Ⓟ
- 2010: Iain Adamson Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From J E Littlewood
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
