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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 Eugene Paul Wigner
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
