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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On this day in 1675, the integral symbol was first used by Gottfried Leibniz in an unpublished manuscript, Analyseos tetragonisticae pars secunda [Second part of analytical quadrature].
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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 PainlevĂ© Ⓟ
- 1975: Tiberiu Popoviciu Ⓟ
- 1985: Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz Ⓟ
- 1993: Lipman Bers Ⓟ
- 1993: Robert Dilworth Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jean d'Alembert
Allez en avant, et la foi vous viendra
Push on and faith will catch up with you.
[advice to those who questioned the calculus]
