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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.
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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 Benjamin Banneker
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
