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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd June
On this day in 1633, under the threat of torture, Galileo was forced by the Inquisition to recant Copernicanism and was sentenced to life imprisonment, though the sentence was carried out somewhat sympathetically and it amounted to house arrest rather than a prison sentence.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2010 Google released a Zuse doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2010 Google released a Zuse doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1837: Paul Bachmann Ⓟ
- 1852: Eduard Weyr Ⓟ
- 1857: Adolf Kiefer
- 1860: Mario Pieri Ⓟ
- 1864: Hermann Minkowski Ⓟ
- 1866: Kazimierz Żorawski Ⓟ
- 1906: Ott-Heinrich Keller Ⓟ
- 1910: Konrad Zuse Ⓟ
- 1913: Levan Magnaradze Ⓟ
- 1921: Ronald Mitchell Ⓟ
- 1932: Mary Warner Ⓟ
Died:
- 1450: al-Kashi Ⓟ
- 1825: Johann Karl Burckhardt Ⓟ
- 1892: Pierre Bonnet Ⓟ
- 1925: Felix Klein Ⓟ
- 1977: Marston Morse Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Felix Klein
Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.
