Mathematicians Of The Day

5th November



On this day in 1828, Augustus De Morgan, age 22, gave his introductory lecture, On the study of mathematics, at London University. He was the first mathematics professor at the university.

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Quotation of the day

From James Clerk Maxwell
According to the theory of emission, the transmission of energy [of light] is effected by the actual transference of light-corpuscles ... According to the theory of undulation, there is a material medium which fills the space between two bodies, and it is by the action of contiguous parts of this medium that the energy is passed on ...
Quoted by K Brown in Reflections on Relativity (Mathpages 2017)