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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st September
On this day in 1681, Michelangelo Ricci was made a cardinal by Pope Innocent XI.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1647: Giovanni Ceva
- 1659: Joseph Saurin Ⓟ
- 1768: Pietro Abbati Marescotti
- 1817: Percival Frost Ⓟ
- 1835: Stanley Jevons Ⓟ
- 1882: Henry Sheffer Ⓟ
- 1901: George Temple Ⓟ
- 1906: Ernst Peschl Ⓟ
- 1910: Pao Lu Hsu Ⓟ
- 1932: Jack van Lint Ⓟ
Died:
- 1648: Marin Mersenne Ⓟ
- 1687: Henry More Ⓟ
- 1716: Heinrich Meissner Ⓟ
- 1908: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Korkin Ⓟ
- 1927: Emil Müller
- 1982: Ludwig Bieberbach Ⓟ
- 1982: Haskell Curry Ⓟ
- 2008: Oded Schramm Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Stanley Jevons
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organisation.
