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Mathematicians Of The Day
4th December
On this day in 1930, Wolfgang Pauli first mentioned in a letter his theoretical evidence that conservation laws required the existence of a new particle which he proposed to call the "neutron". Pauli's particle was named the "neutrino" by Fermi in 1934 and it was later found experimentally.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1995.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1795: Thomas Carlyle Ⓟ
- 1806: John T Graves Ⓟ
- 1870: Ion Ionescu Ⓟ
- 1886: Ludwig Bieberbach Ⓟ
- 1890: Harry Carver Ⓟ
- 1938: George E Andrews Ⓟ
Died:
- 1131: Omar Khayyam Ⓟ
- 1574: Georg Joachim Rheticus
- 1679: Thomas Hobbes Ⓟ
- 1934: Horace Lamb Ⓟ
- 1943: Charles Henry Rowe
- 1992: Eižens Leimanis Ⓟ
- 2020: Anatoly Mykhailovych Samoilenko Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
