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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th October
On this day in 1710, William Whiston was deprived of his Cambridge chair and dismissed from the university after being charged with heresy.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1977.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1840: Joseph Neuberg Ⓟ
- 1844: George-Henri Halphen Ⓟ
- 1906: Andrei Tikhonov Ⓟ
- 1907: Harold Davenport Ⓟ
- 1938: Marina Ratner Ⓟ
- 1946: Bill Thurston Ⓟ
Died:
- 1626: Willebrord Snell Ⓟ
- 1631: Michael Mästlin Ⓟ
- 1739: Leonty Filippovich Magnitsky Ⓟ
- 1810: François Français
- 1975: Gustav Hertz Ⓟ
- 1989: Dmitrii Konstantinovich Faddeev Ⓟ
- 1991: Ellis Kolchin Ⓟ
- 2007: Juha Heinonen Ⓟ
- 2011: Jonas Kubilius Ⓟ
- 2014: Blagoj Popov Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Harold Davenport
A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.
