MacTutorMathematicians 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.
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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 Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From James Joseph Sylvester
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.
