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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th November
On this day in 1752, Christian Goldbach wrote to Euler conjecturing that any odd number could be written in the form where p is prime. A counterexample was found in 1856.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2014.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2014.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1844: Albert Wangerin Ⓟ
- 1872: Giovanni Vacca Ⓟ
- 1912: Shigeo Sasaki Ⓟ
- 1913: Alessandro Faedo Ⓟ
- 1916: David Bates Ⓟ
- 1924: Lucien Le Cam Ⓟ
- 1927: John Britton Ⓟ
- 1950: Gilles Pisier Ⓟ
Died:
- 1891: Joseph Wolstenholme Ⓟ
- 1919: Adolf Hurwitz Ⓟ
- 1933: Robert Scott Ⓟ
- 1945: Yakov Davydovich Tamarkin Ⓟ
- 1948: Arthur Hirsch Ⓟ
- 1959: Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin Ⓟ
- 1962: Niels Bohr Ⓟ
- 1985: Henri Garnir Ⓟ
- 1994: Maurice Auslander Ⓟ
- 1994: Nathan Fine Ⓟ
- 2000: Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Ⓟ
- 2001: Lloyd Williams Ⓟ
- 2002: Edith Hirsch Luchins Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Niels Bohr
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
