Mathematicians Of The Day
16th July
On this day in 1611, Marin Mersenne entered the Order of Minims. He was ordained a priest in Paris in July 1612.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010 .
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010 .
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Born:
- 1678: Jakob Hermann Ⓟ
- 1746: Giuseppe Piazzi Ⓟ
- 1801: Julius Plücker Ⓟ
- 1819: Siegfried Aronhold Ⓟ
- 1862: James Archibald
- 1902: Gheorghe Calugăreănu Ⓟ
- 1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Ⓟ
- 1932: Stanisław Świerczkowski Ⓟ
Died:
- 1850: Enno Heeren Dirksen Ⓟ
- 1976: Nikoloz Muskhelishvili Ⓟ
- 1981: Jacob Wolfowitz Ⓟ
- 1994: Julian Schwinger Ⓟ
- 2005: Magdalena Mouján Ⓟ
- 2013: Yurii Vasilevich Prokhorov Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jakob Hermann
... ut recte intellegantur scripta verterum
[... so that the writings of antiquity be rightly understood.]