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Mathematicians Of The Day
4th October
On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite. It circled the earth every 96 minutes in an elliptical orbit. Pravda noted that
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1961.
... theoretical work by Nikolay Ivanovich Muskhelishvili has made a fundamental contribution to this great victory.On this day in 2010 Google released a Doodle celebrating the first day of the Gregorian calendar (In fact the first day of the Gregorian calendar was 5th October 1582).
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1961.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1759: Louis Arbogast Ⓟ
- 1797: Félix Savary
- 1804: Wilhelm Weber Ⓟ
- 1874: Gheorghe Țițeica Ⓟ
- 1876: Florence Allen Ⓟ
- 1880: Alexander Merriles
- 1906: Mary Fasenmyer Ⓟ
- 1925: Renfrey Potts Ⓟ
- 1935: Hitoshi Kumano-Go Ⓟ
- 1936: Umirzak Sultangazin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1885: Heinrich Scherk Ⓟ
- 1918: Matteo Bottasso Ⓟ
- 1947: Max Planck Ⓟ
- 1954: Georg Hamel Ⓟ
- 1973: Hermann Kober Ⓟ
- 1974: Robert Lee Moore Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Max Planck
If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
