22nd June

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.
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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

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss,
always united theory and applications in equal measure.

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