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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th August
On this day in 1804, the first balloon ascent made for scientific purposes was by Jean-Baptiste Biot and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac from the garden of the Conservatoire des Arts. They achieved a height of 4000 metres and measured magnetic, electrical, and chemical properties of the atmosphere at various heights.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1954.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1954.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1561: Bartholomeo Pitiscus Ⓟ
- 1835: John Purser Ⓟ
- 1846: Enoch Beery Seitz Ⓟ
- 1901: Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin Ⓟ
- 1942: Karen Uhlenbeck Ⓟ
Died:
- 1595: Thomas Digges Ⓟ
- 1670: William Neile
- 1739: Takebe Katahiro
- 1832: Sadi Carnot Ⓟ
- 1888: Rudolf Clausius Ⓟ
- 1929: Thomas Bromwich Ⓟ
- 1971: Wallace J Eckert Ⓟ
- 1975: Anna Mullikin Ⓟ
- 1982: Hitoshi Kumano-Go Ⓟ
- 1992: Eléna Kreindler
- 1993: Boris Yakovlevich Levin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Rudolf Clausius
Die Energie der Welt ist konstant. Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu.
The energy of the world is constant. its entropy tends to a maximum.
