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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st November
On this day in 1884 The International Meridian Conference referenced mean solar time to the 24 standard meridians each of 15 degrees longitude. The international date line was then established to generally follow the 180th meridian in the Pacific Ocean.
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Born:
- 1535: Giambattista della Porta Ⓟ
- 1864: Ludwig Schlesinger Ⓟ
- 1874: Robert d'Adhémar Ⓟ
- 1913: Andrzej Mostowski Ⓟ
- 1919: Hermann Bondi Ⓟ
- 1920: Ambrose Rogers Ⓟ
- 1926: James Serrin Ⓟ
- 1942: Vitaly Vitalievich Fedorchuk Ⓟ
Died:
- 1922: Fritz (Friedrich) Bützberger
- 1962: Thomas MacRobert Ⓟ
- 1971: Leonard Jimmie Savage Ⓟ
- 2000: Ruth Michler Ⓟ
- 2022: Geoffrey Howson Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Hermann Bondi
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.
