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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd October
On this day in 1667, Isaac Newton became a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to the plague.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2018.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2018.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1568: Marino Ghetaldi Ⓟ
- 1791: Victor Amédée Lebesgue
- 1791: Alexis Petit Ⓟ
- 1825: John James Walker Ⓟ
- 1875: Arthur Conway Ⓟ
- 1908: Arthur Erdélyi Ⓟ
- 1926: Michio Suzuki Ⓟ
- 1929: Branko Grünbaum Ⓟ
Died:
- 1853: François Arago Ⓟ
- 1929: Andrei Razmadze Ⓟ
- 1962: Boris Yakovlevic Bukreev Ⓟ
- 1999: Tosio Kato Ⓟ
- 2006: Paul Halmos Ⓟ
- 2009: Shaun Wylie Ⓟ
- 2011: Frank Levin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Paul Halmos
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.
