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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 inventer of "Polish notation".
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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
I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
