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Mathematicians Of The Day
29th September
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Born:
- 1561: Adriaan van Roomen Ⓟ
- 1803: Charles-François Sturm Ⓟ
- 1812: Adolph Göpel
- 1868: Anne Bosworth Ⓟ
- 1876: Gaetano Scorza Ⓟ
- 1895: Harold Hotelling Ⓟ
- 1901: Enrico Fermi Ⓟ
- 1935: Hillel Furstenberg Ⓟ
Died:
- 1928: Ernst Steinitz Ⓟ
- 1939: Samuel Dickstein Ⓟ
- 1941: Friedrich Engel Ⓟ
- 1945: Evan James Williams Ⓟ
- 1982: Letitia Chitty Ⓟ
- 1986: Dov Jarden Ⓟ
- 2003: Ovide Arino Ⓟ
- 2022: Kathleen Booth Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Adriaan van Roomen
Surely there is a certain science common to arithmetic and geometry to which properties common to all quantities pertain: since a proportion is common to all quantities, not only abstract ones such as numbers and magnitudes, but also concrete ones such as times, sounds, voices, places, motions, and forces (for all these and many others are said to have a proportion if their relation is considered from the viewpoint of quantity).
