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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th October
On this day in 1805, Carl Friedrich Gauss married Johanna Ostoff. Sadly, she died four years later.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2004.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2004.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1581: Claude Gaspar Bachet Ⓟ
- 1623: Ferdinand Verbiest Ⓟ
- 1704: Johann Segner Ⓟ
- 1873: Karl Schwarzschild Ⓟ
- 1898: Heinrich Behnke Ⓟ
- 1901: Winifred Deans Ⓟ
- 1911: Luís Antoni Santaló Ⓟ
- 1927: Friedrich Horn Ⓟ
- 1928: Richard Varga Ⓟ
- 1941: Alan Day Ⓟ
- 1947: Henryk Iwaniec Ⓟ
- 1947: Tadeusz Iwaniec Ⓟ
- 1949: Fan Chung Ⓟ
Died:
- 1253: Robert Grosseteste Ⓟ
- 1806: Benjamin Banneker Ⓟ
- 1807: Gianfrancesco Malfatti Ⓟ
- 1863: Rudolf Skuherský Ⓟ
- 1909: Hugh Blackburn Ⓟ
- 1948: Joseph Wedderburn Ⓟ
- 1990: Georges de Rham Ⓟ
- 2019: Richard Askey Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Benjamin Banneker
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
