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Mathematicians Of The Day
12th August
Pierre Gassendi produced an anonymous pamphlet attempting to reassure the people of Paris that a predicted eclipse of the sun on this day in 1654 would not lead to a disaster. He was not entirely successful as many of the inhabitants of Paris hid in their cellars on this day.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Schrödinger doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Schrödinger doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1769: Martin Bartels Ⓟ
- 1862: Jules Richard Ⓟ
- 1887: Erwin Schrödinger Ⓟ
- 1930: Jacques Tits Ⓟ
- 1933: Ray Vanstone Ⓟ
Died:
- 1901: Ernest de Jonquières Ⓟ
- 1928: Charles Chree Ⓟ
- 1935: Friedrich Schottky Ⓟ
- 1945: Georg Scheffers Ⓟ
- 1986: Omar Catunda Ⓟ
- 1989: František Wolf Ⓟ
- 1996: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Erwin Schrödinger
The idea of the continuum seems simple to us. We have somehow lost sight of the difficulties it implies ... We are told such a number as the square root of 2 worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was highly credible.
