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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th November
On this day in 1673 Christopher Wren was knighted.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1845: Ulisse Dini Ⓟ
- 1865: Giuseppe Bagnera Ⓟ
- 1882: Robert Lee Moore Ⓟ
- 1896: Bertram Wilson
- 1916: Roger Apéry Ⓟ
- 1919: Paulette Libermann Ⓟ
- 1932: Jacques Neveu Ⓟ
Died:
- 1716: Gottfried Leibniz Ⓟ
- 1798: Naonobu Ajima Ⓟ
- 1954: Ernst Fischer Ⓟ
- 1971: Hanna Neumann Ⓟ
- 2006: Gustave Choquet Ⓟ
- 2014: Evgenii B Dynkin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gottfried Leibniz
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret.
