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Mathematicians Of The Day
29th October
On this day in 1675, the integral symbol was first used by Gottfried Leibniz in an unpublished manuscript, Analyseos tetragonisticae pars secunda [Second part of analytical quadrature].
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1959.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1959.
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Born:
- 1753: Nicola Fergola Ⓟ
- 1897: Edwin Pitman Ⓟ
- 1910: Daniel Pedoe Ⓟ
- 1925: Nathan Divinsky Ⓟ
- 1925: Klaus Roth Ⓟ
- 1950: Gamal Ismail
Died:
- 1774: Augustin Hallerstein Ⓟ
- 1783: Jean d'Alembert Ⓟ
- 1914: Giovanni Guccia Ⓟ
- 1921: Konstantin Alekseevich Andreev Ⓟ
- 1931: Gabriel Koenigs Ⓟ
- 1933: Paul Painlevé Ⓟ
- 1975: Tiberiu Popoviciu Ⓟ
- 1985: Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz Ⓟ
- 1993: Lipman Bers Ⓟ
- 1993: Robert Dilworth Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jean d'Alembert
One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.
