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Mathematicians Of The Day
16th October
On this day in 1843, William Hamilton realised how to multiply together quaternions and carved the formulae on a canal bridge in Dublin.
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Born:
- 1879: Philip Jourdain Ⓟ
- 1882: Ernst Jacobsthal Ⓟ
- 1930: John Polkinghorne Ⓟ
- 1959: Philip Maini Ⓟ
Died:
- 1925: Mór Réthy Ⓟ
- 1927: Henry Taylor Ⓟ
- 1937: William Gosset Ⓟ
- 1982: Nikolai Vladimirovich Efimov Ⓟ
- 1983: Harish-Chandra Ⓟ
- 1985: Alexander Doniphan Wallace Ⓟ
- 1993: András Rapcsák Ⓟ
- 2019: John Torrence Tate Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Harish-Chandra
I have often pondered over the roles of knowledge or experience, on the one hand, and imagination or intuition, on the other, in the process of discovery. I believe that there is a certain fundamental conflict between the two, and knowledge, by advocating caution, tends to inhibit the flight of imagination. Therefore, a certain naivete, unburdened by conventional wisdom, can sometimes be a positive asset.
