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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th November
On this day in 1677, Edmond Halley made the first complete observation of a transit of Mercury from St Helena.
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:
- 1660: Thomas Fantet de Lagny Ⓟ
- 1799: Karl Gräffe
- 1843: Heinrich Friedrich Weber Ⓟ
- 1898: Raphaël Salem Ⓟ
- 1906: Jean Leray Ⓟ
- 1915: Boris Khvedelidze Ⓟ
- 1918: Mario Fiorentini Ⓟ
Died:
- 1872: Alfred Clebsch Ⓟ
- 1918: Artemas Martin Ⓟ
- 1936: Gury Vasilievich Kolosov Ⓟ
- 1939: Ralph Sampson Ⓟ
- 1944: C Wilhelm Oseen Ⓟ
- 1968: Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond Ⓟ
- 2016: Wolfgang Gaschütz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ralph Sampson
Counting correctly is very difficult, because, so to put it, it requires from the mind a simultaneous hold upon the past, present, and future. Counting, on the other hand, done carefully is the only region of knowledge, even of mathematics, in which we can be perfectly sure we are not talking nonsense.
