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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd December
On this day in 1942, Enrico Fermi oversaw the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in a disused football stadium in Chicago. Exactly 25 years later Italy published a postage stamp commemorating the anniversary.
See THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1754: Nicolas-François Canard
- 1831: Paul du Bois-Reymond Ⓟ
- 1865: Niels Nielsen Ⓟ
- 1869: Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov Ⓟ
- 1902: Hubert Wall Ⓟ
- 1911: Abraham Gelbart Ⓟ
- 1914: Robert Dilworth Ⓟ
Died:
- 1594: Gerard Mercator Ⓟ
- 1873: Karl Gräffe
- 1943: Matthew Fry
- 1966: L E J Brouwer Ⓟ
- 1977: Ilya Vekua Ⓟ
- 1982: Geoffrey Timms Ⓟ
- 1992: Aldo Ghizzetti Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From L E J Brouwer
One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.
