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Mathematicians Of The Day
3rd September
On this day in 1457, Georg Peurbach observed a lunar eclipse from a site near Vienna. He measured the duration of the eclipse and then found the time of the midpoint. It was eight minutes earlier than the time predicted by the Alphonsine Tables.
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:
- 1814: James Joseph Sylvester Ⓟ
- 1868: Charles Shirra Dougall Ⓟ
- 1874: Carl Størmer Ⓟ
- 1884: Solomon Lefschetz Ⓟ
- 1908: Lev Pontryagin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1967: William Milne Ⓟ
- 1983: Harold Sanders Ⓟ
- 1984: Wilhelm Winkler Ⓟ
- 1996: Bent Christiansen Ⓟ
- 2016: Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Ⓟ
- 2021: David Borwein Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From James Joseph Sylvester
During a conversation with the writer in the last weeks of his life, Sylvester remarked as curious that notwithstanding he had always considered the bent of his mind to be rather analytical than geometrical, he found in nearly every case that the solution of an analytical problem turned upon some quite simple geometrical notion, and that he was never satisfied until he could present the argument in geometrical language.
