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.

Click on for a poster.


Quotation of the day

From André-Marie Ampère
The future science of government should be called "la cybernétique" (1843)
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)