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Mathematicians Of The Day
5th December
On this day in 1735, Leonard Euler presented a paper to the St Petersburg Academy giving his solution to the Basel problem: .
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Born:
- 1788: Griffith Davies Ⓟ
- 1863: Paul Painlevé Ⓟ
- 1868: Arnold Sommerfeld Ⓟ
- 1873: Richard Fuchs Ⓟ
- 1878: Haroutune Dadourian Ⓟ
- 1895: Elbert Cox Ⓟ
- 1901: Werner Heisenberg Ⓟ
- 1904: Karl Maruhn Ⓟ
- 1909: Mark Aronovich Naimark Ⓟ
- 1937: Johannes Boersma
Died:
- 1708: Takakazu Seki Ⓟ
- 1770: James Stirling
- 1859: Louis Poinsot Ⓟ
- 1930: Alfred Barnard Basset Ⓟ
- 1959: Mary Winston Newson Ⓟ
- 1990: Ott-Heinrich Keller Ⓟ
- 1999: Nathan Jacobson Ⓟ
- 2005: Ambrose Rogers Ⓟ
- 2021: Jacques Tits Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Louis Poinsot
Everyone makes for himself a clear idea of the motion of a point, that is to say, of the motion of a corpuscle which one supposes to be infinitely small, and which one reduces by thought in some way to a mathematical point.
