29th September

Mathematicians Of The Day

29th September

On this day in 1801, Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae was published. Gauss was only 24 years old at that time and had written it when he was 21.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2001.

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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 Ⓟ
2024: Richard Hamilton Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Enrico Fermi

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

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