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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.
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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 Enoch Beery Seitz
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs
