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Mathematicians Of The Day
10th June
On this day in 1827, William Rowan Hamilton, at the age of 21, was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland at Dunsink observatory at Trinity College, Ireland. This was a unique event in that he was still an undergraduate.
On this day in 2015 Google released an Abul-Wafa doodle.
On this day in 2015 Google released an Abul-Wafa doodle.
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 Morris Kline
In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.
