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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 Ⓟ
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
... nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any apppreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.
