Mathematicians Of The Day

17th September



On this day in 1789 William Herschel discovered the moon Mimas of Saturn with his 48 inch reflector. This moon is now seen to have one huge crater, much larger than all other craters of the moon, and this had been named 'Herschel'.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.

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Quotation of the day

From Marshall Hall Jr
We have used the term subinvariant subgroup as the term subnormal subgroup may be unnecessarily distracting.
From a foonote in Theory of Groups .