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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
On this day in 2017 Google released a Doppler doodle
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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 Horace Lamb
A traveller who refuses to pass over a bridge until he has personally tested the soundness of every part of it is not likely to go far; something must be risked, even in mathematics.
