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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th October
On this day in 1606, Johannes Kepler, having heard of Thomas Harriot's work in natural philosophy from his friend John Erickson wrote to ask Harriot's view on colours, refraction, and causes of the rainbow.
The banknote of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
The banknote of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1675: Samuel Clarke Ⓟ
- 1777: Barnabé Brisson Ⓟ
- 1786: Miles Bland
- 1881: Lewis Fry Richardson Ⓟ
- 1885: Alfréd Haar Ⓟ
- 1887: Lucien Godeaux Ⓟ
- 1910: Cahit Arf Ⓟ
- 1923: Harish-Chandra Ⓟ
Died:
- 1697: Stephano degli Angeli Ⓟ
- 1698: William Molyneux Ⓟ
- 1708: Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Ⓟ
- 1731: John Craig Ⓟ
- 1791: Johann Castillon
- 1825: Adrien Quentin Buée
- 1852: Gotthold Eisenstein Ⓟ
- 1940: Vito Volterra Ⓟ
- 1943: Geoffrey Bennett Ⓟ
- 1948: André Bloch
- 1979: Winifred Sargent
- 1979: Franciszek Leja Ⓟ
- 1996: Lars Ahlfors Ⓟ
- 1996: Edwin Spanier Ⓟ
- 2008: Anatolii Asirovich Goldberg Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lewis Fry Richardson
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
