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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd November
On this day in 2022, Jan Łukasiewicz's remains were reburied in Warsaw's Old Powązki Cemetery. He had died and been buried in Dublin in 1956. Łukasiewicz is best known as the inventor of "Polish notation".
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1753: Dugald Stewart Ⓟ
- 1803: Giusto Bellavitis Ⓟ
- 1837: Hermann Bleuler Ⓟ
- 1840: Émile Lemoine Ⓟ
- 1875: Louis N G Filon Ⓟ
- 1909: Ottó Varga Ⓟ
- 1910: Floyd Burton Jones Ⓟ
Died:
- 1784: Paolo Frisi Ⓟ
- 1930: Peter Pinkerton Ⓟ
- 1944: Arthur Eddington Ⓟ
- 1986: Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov Ⓟ
- 1996: Garrett Birkhoff Ⓟ
- 2001: Luís Antoni Santaló Ⓟ
- 2007: Ronald Mitchell Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Arthur Eddington
There once was a brainy baboon,
Who always breathed down a bassoon,
For he said, "It appears
That in billions of years
I shall certainly hit on a tune".
