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Mathematicians Of The Day
13th November
On this day in 1845, Michael Faraday wrote to John Herschel:
It was only the very strongest conviction that Light, Magnetism and Electricity must be connected that could have led me to resume the subject and persevere through much labour before I found the key. Now all is simplicity itself.
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Born:
- 1786: James Thomson Ⓟ
- 1876: Ernest Wilczynski Ⓟ
- 1878: Max Dehn Ⓟ
- 1906: Hans Fitting Ⓟ
- 1920: Kollagunta Ramanathan Ⓟ
- 1922: Ambros Speiser Ⓟ
- 1927: Albert Bharucha-Reid Ⓟ
- 1950: David Broomhead Ⓟ
- 1959: Lene Vestergaard Hau Ⓟ
Died:
- 1942: Robert Remak Ⓟ
- 1944: Otto Blumenthal Ⓟ
- 2002: Frederick Atkinson Ⓟ
- 2013: Gilberto Loibel Ⓟ
- 2014: Alexander Grothendieck Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Max Dehn
Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.
