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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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Born:
- 1743: Marquis de Condorcet Ⓟ
- 1826: Bernhard Riemann Ⓟ
- 1903: Catherine Steele Ⓟ
- 1905: Hans Freudenthal Ⓟ
- 1910: Marshall Hall Jr Ⓟ
- 1918: David Gilbarg Ⓟ
- 1937: Moshé Flato Ⓟ
Died:
- 1877: Henry Fox Talbot Ⓟ
- 1891: Józeph Petzval Ⓟ
- 1946: Ion Ionescu Ⓟ
- 1970: Anton Dimitrija Bilimovic Ⓟ
- 1999: Leonard Carlitz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bernhard Riemann
If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
