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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th November
On this day in 1675, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz first introduced the symbols dx, dy and .
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1968.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1968.
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Born:
- 1701: Anders Celsius Ⓟ
- 1729: Louis-Antoine de Bougainville Ⓟ
- 1851: Jacques Bertillon Ⓟ
- 1904: Henry Whitehead Ⓟ
- 1905: Sigekatu Kuroda Ⓟ
- 1911: Caleb Gattegno Ⓟ
- 1911: Enzo Martinelli Ⓟ
Died:
- 1933: Mineo Chini
- 1954: Horatio Carslaw Ⓟ
- 1957: Ugo Amaldi Ⓟ
- 1967: Lester R Ford Ⓟ
- 1985: Mary Simpson Ⓟ
- 1992: Alfonso Nápoles Gándara Ⓟ
- 1997: Menahem Schiffer Ⓟ
- 2003: Andrei Andreevich Bolibrukh Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Henry Whitehead
The British Mathematical Colloquium consists of three days of mathematics with no dogs and no wives.
