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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 Ⓟ
- 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 Robert Grosseteste
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.
