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Mathematicians Of The Day
24th October
On this day in 1994, Andrew Wiles submitted a paper which finally proved Fermat's Last Theorem. It was published in May 1995.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1821: Philipp von Seidel Ⓟ
- 1825: Carl Bjerknes Ⓟ
- 1853: Heinrich Maschke Ⓟ
- 1872: Georgii Vasilovich Pfeiffer Ⓟ
- 1873: Edmund Whittaker Ⓟ
- 1875: Henry Plummer Ⓟ
- 1883: Albert Châtelet Ⓟ
- 1906: Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond Ⓟ
- 1920: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger Ⓟ
- 1946: Ola Bratteli Ⓟ
Died:
- 1601: Tycho Brahe Ⓟ
- 1635: Wilhelm Schickard Ⓟ
- 1655: Pierre Gassendi Ⓟ
- 1847: James MacCullagh Ⓟ
- 1930: Paul Appell Ⓟ
- 1944: John Morrison
- 1952: Ida Metcalf Ⓟ
- 1966: Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja Ⓟ
- 1979: Hermann Arthur Jahn Ⓟ
- 1987: Donald Sadler Ⓟ
- 2014: Johanna Weber Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Tycho Brahe
Simplicibus itaque verbis gaudet Mathematica Veritas, cum etiam per se simplex sit Veritatis oratio.
So Mathematical Truth prefers simple words since the language of Truth is itself simple.
