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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th October
On this day in 1570, Girolamo Cardano was imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1552: Matteo Ricci Ⓟ
- 1745: Adrien Quentin Buée
- 1784: Charles Dupin Ⓟ
- 1795: Olinde Rodrigues Ⓟ
- 1831: Richard Dedekind Ⓟ
- 1903: Ernest Walton Ⓟ
- 1908: Sergei Sobolev Ⓟ
- 1918: Abraham Robinson Ⓟ
- 1925: Lloyd Williams Ⓟ
- 1936: Robert P Langlands Ⓟ
Died:
- 1840: François Budan
- 1855: August Crelle Ⓟ
- 1878: Daniel da Silva Ⓟ
- 1880: Benjamin Peirce Ⓟ
- 1954: Ernst Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1958: Bibhutibhushan Datta Ⓟ
- 1959: Balthasar van der Pol Ⓟ
- 1968: Phyllis Nicolson Ⓟ
- 1979: Dudley Littlewood Ⓟ
- 1986: Alexander Kronrod Ⓟ
- 2015: Ivan Vidav Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Richard Dedekind
What is provable is not to be believed without proof in science.
