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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th October
On this day in 1604, Johannes Kepler first sighted the supernova now called "Kepler's nova" in the constellation Ophiuchus. Kepler wrote about it in De Stella Nova in 1606. It is the most recent supernova in our galaxy to have been unquestionably observed by the naked eye.
On this day in 2010 Google released an Arf doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1944.
On this day in 2010 Google released an Arf doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1944.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1850: Scott Lang Ⓟ
- 1859: Alfonso Del Re
- 1908: Aldo Ghizzetti Ⓟ
- 1908: Hans Heilbronn Ⓟ
- 1932: Kenneth Appel Ⓟ
- 1933: Gary Roach Ⓟ
- 1947: Palle Jorgensen Ⓟ
- 1962: Nkechi Agwu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1652: John Greaves Ⓟ
- 1883: Enoch Beery Seitz Ⓟ
- 1942: Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin Ⓟ
- 1954: Dimitrie Pompeiu Ⓟ
- 1973: Evan (Ianto) Davies Ⓟ
- 1985: Gordon Welchman Ⓟ
- 1994: Brian Hartley Ⓟ
- 2005: Alfred Goldie Ⓟ
- 2005: Harry Pitt Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Enoch Beery Seitz
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs
