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Mathematicians Of The Day
16th September
On this day in 1848, Karl Weierstrass became a mathematics teacher at the Catholic Gymnasium in Braunsberg, Germany, his third such position. That year he taught mathematics for 19 hours per week, took over the geography class after Easter, and received a special note of thanks for helping out in the gym!
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Born:
- 1494: Francesco Maurolico Ⓟ
- 1736: Johannes Tetens Ⓟ
- 1893: Harold Sanders Ⓟ
Died:
- 1925: Alexander Friedmann Ⓟ
- 1928: Wayland Dowling Ⓟ
- 1931: Niels Nielsen Ⓟ
- 1937: John Airey
- 1942: Géza Grünwald Ⓟ
- 1946: James Jeans Ⓟ
- 1979: Marion Gray Ⓟ
- 1989: Allen Shields Ⓟ
- 2011: Mario Wschebor Ⓟ
- 2016: Benjamin Moiseiwitsch Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From James Jeans
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
