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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 Ⓟ
- 1984: Wilhelm Winkler Ⓟ
- 1996: Bent Christiansen Ⓟ
- 2016: Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Ⓟ
- 2021: David Borwein Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From James Joseph Sylvester
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.
