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Mathematicians Of The Day
31st October
On this day in 1992, the Vatican admitted that Galileo was correct in believing that the earth went around the sun. This was after 13 years of inquiry by the Pope's commission of historic, scientific and theological scholars.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1711: Laura Bassi Ⓟ
- 1815: Karl Weierstrass Ⓟ
- 1877: Ólafur Daníelsson Ⓟ
- 1883: David Gibb Ⓟ
- 1890: Joseph Pérès Ⓟ
- 1902: Abraham Wald Ⓟ
- 1919: Magnus Wenninger Ⓟ
- 1925: John Pople Ⓟ
- 1935: Ronald Graham Ⓟ
- 1938: Marta Bunge Ⓟ
Died:
- 1897: Samuel Haughton Ⓟ
- 1987: Raj Chandra Bose Ⓟ
- 1988: Theodor Schneider Ⓟ
- 1988: George Uhlenbeck Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ronald Graham
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, "Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof."
