Mathematicians Of The Day
17th November
On this day in 1930 Kurt Godel's On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems was received for publication. It contained the result that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic.
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Born:
- 1597: Henry Gellibrand Ⓟ
- 1717: Jean d'Alembert Ⓟ
- 1790: August Möbius Ⓟ
- 1862: James Wattie
- 1902: Eugene Paul Wigner Ⓟ
- 1919: Raimundo Chela Ⓟ
- 1946: Welington de Melo Ⓟ
Died:
- 1704: Valentin Heins Ⓟ
- 1929: Herman Hollerith Ⓟ
- 1953: Pierre Humbert Ⓟ
- 1954: Tadeusz Banachiewicz Ⓟ
- 1958: Yutaka Taniyama Ⓟ
- 2019: Alex Craik Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jean d'Alembert
Allez en avant, et la foi vous viendra
Push on and faith will catch up with you.
[advice to those who questioned the calculus]