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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th October
On this day in 1496 Nicolaus Copernicus entered the University of Bologna to start three years of study.
On this day in 2017 Google released a Chandrasekhar doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2006.
On this day in 2017 Google released a Chandrasekhar doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2006.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1795: Arthur Jules Morin Ⓟ
- 1871: John Miller Ⓟ
- 1889: Alessandro Terracini Ⓟ
- 1903: Jean Delsarte Ⓟ
- 1910: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ⓟ
- 1939: Doris Schattschneider Ⓟ
- 1951: Demetrios Christodoulou Ⓟ
Died:
- 1586: Egnatio Danti Ⓟ
- 1878: Jules Bienaymé Ⓟ
- 1890: Émile Mathieu
- 1944: Dénes König Ⓟ
- 1972: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin Ⓟ
- 1979: Marjorie Lee Browne Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a discovery
of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
