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Mathematicians Of The Day
29th November
On this day in 1114, an earthquake devastated Cilicia (now in Turkey). In the town of Mamistra (Misis), the young mathematician, Adelard of Bath, travelling in the Middle East to study the wisdom of the Arabs, clung to a stone bridge in fear for his life.
On this day in 2017 Google released a Doppler doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1992.
On this day in 2017 Google released a Doppler doodle
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1992.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1803: Christian Doppler Ⓟ
- 1847: George Greenhill Ⓟ
- 1849: Horace Lamb Ⓟ
- 1854: Christian Beyel Ⓟ
- 1859: Jérôme Franel Ⓟ
- 1866: Ernest Brown Ⓟ
- 1879: Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov Ⓟ
- 1892: Gustav Doetsch Ⓟ
- 1959: Richard Borcherds Ⓟ
Died:
- 1759: Nicolaus (I) Bernoulli
- 1872: Mary Somerville Ⓟ
- 1920: Thomas Bond Sprague Ⓟ
- 1935: Ivar Bendixson Ⓟ
- 1953: Ernest William Barnes Ⓟ
- 1991: Theodor Estermann Ⓟ
- 1992: Jean Dieudonné Ⓟ
- 2004: Johannes Boersma
- 2010: Richard Schelp Ⓟ
- 2020: Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jean Dieudonné
Certain foreigners, invited as spectators to Bourbaki meetings, always come out with the impression that it is a gathering of madmen. They could not imagine how these people, shouting (sometimes three or four at the same time) about mathematics, could ever come up with anything intelligent.
