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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 read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."
