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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th June
On this day in 1854, Bernhard Riemann gave his habilitation lecture Über die Hypothesen welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen [On the hypotheses at the foundations of geometry], in which he defined what are now called Riemannian manifolds.
On this day in 2015 Google released an Abul-Wafa doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1936.
On this day in 2015 Google released an Abul-Wafa doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1936.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 940: Abu'l-Wafa Ⓟ
- 1625: János Apáczai Ⓟ
- 1816: Johann Rosenhain Ⓟ
- 1861: Pierre Duhem Ⓟ
- 1885: Andreas Speiser Ⓟ
- 1887: Vladimir Smirnov Ⓟ
- 1904: John Semple Ⓟ
- 1924: Norrie Everitt Ⓟ
- 1932: Pierre Cartier Ⓟ
Died:
- 1836: André-Marie Ampère Ⓟ
- 1875: Victor Amédée Lebesgue
- 1903: Luigi Cremona Ⓟ
- 1948: Philippa Fawcett Ⓟ
- 1972: Sylvia Skan
- 1974: Jaroslav Hájek Ⓟ
- 1992: Morris Kline Ⓟ
- 2007: Hans-Jürgen Hoehnke Ⓟ
- 2012: George Saitoti Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Pierre Duhem
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
