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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th September
On this day in 1846, Le Verrier wrote to Johann Galle at the Berlin Observatory asking him to look for a planet at the position he predicted. Galle located Neptune five days later.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Foucault doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Foucault doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1958.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre Ⓟ
- 1819: Léon Foucault Ⓟ
- 1863: William Metzler Ⓟ
- 1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian Ⓟ
- 1909: Johannes Haantjes Ⓟ
Died:
- 1783: Leonhard Euler Ⓟ
- 1891: William Ferrel Ⓟ
- 1896: Hippolyte Fizeau Ⓟ
- 1969: Joseph Pierce Ⓟ
- 1977: Paul Bernays Ⓟ
- 2002: Siobhán Vernon Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Leonhard Euler
Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
[In Berlin, excusing his taciturnity in conversation with the Queen Mother of Prussia, on his return from Russia]
