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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
Sir Hermann Bondi once wrote that so-called scientific progress does not consist so much in an advancement in science but rather in taking something that beforehand was not science and making it become a part of science itself.
