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.

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Quotation of the day

From André-Marie Ampère
There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.
In J R Hofmann, André-Marie Ampère (1996)