MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
24th September
On this day in 2017, Maryna Viazovska was given a Clay Research Award in recognition of her groundbreaking work on sphere-packing problems in eight and twenty-four dimensions. In particular, she proved that the lattice is an optimal solution in eight dimensions.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1501: Girolamo Cardano Ⓟ
- 1625: Jan de Witt Ⓟ
- 1766: John Farey Ⓟ
- 1801: Mikhail Vasilevich Ostrogradski Ⓟ
- 1844: Max Noether Ⓟ
- 1861: Robert Fricke
- 1862: Winifred Edgerton Merrill Ⓟ
- 1894: Werner Rogosinski Ⓟ
- 1896: Tadeusz Ważewski Ⓟ
- 1904: Evan (Ianto) Davies Ⓟ
- 1911: Menahem Schiffer Ⓟ
- 1923: Raoul Bott Ⓟ
Died:
- 1054: Hermann of Reichenau Ⓟ
- 1651: Étienne Pascal
- 1938: Lev Shnirelman Ⓟ
- 1967: Pauline Sperry Ⓟ
- 1989: Åke Pleijel Ⓟ
- 1999: Anneli Lax Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Girolamo Cardano
Scipio Ferro of Bologna well-nigh thirty years ago discovered this rule and handed it on to Antonio Maria Fior of Venice, whose contest with Niccolo Tartaglia of Brescia gave Niccolo occasion to discover it. He [Tartaglia] gave it to me in response to my entreaties, though withholding the demonstration. Armed with this assistance, I sought out its demonstration in [various] forms. This was very difficult.
