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Mathematicians Of The Day
6th December
On this day in 1733, James Stirling read a paper to the Royal Society entitled Twelve propositions concerning the figure of the Earth. He supported Newton's view that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, against the rival Cassinian view.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1682: Giulio Fagnano Ⓟ
- 1812: Charles Graves Ⓟ
- 1856: Walther von Dyck Ⓟ
- 1880: Pierre Boutroux Ⓟ
- 1900: George Uhlenbeck Ⓟ
- 1908: Herta Freitag Ⓟ
- 1916: John Kelley Ⓟ
- 1922: Leslie Woods Ⓟ
- 1927: Benjamin Moiseiwitsch Ⓟ
- 1941: László Filep Ⓟ
Died:
- 1715: Choi Seok-jeong Ⓟ
- 1788: Nicole-Reine Lepaute Ⓟ
- 1893: Rudolf Wolf Ⓟ
- 1925: Carl Schoy Ⓟ
- 1973: Joseph Walsh Ⓟ
- 1990: Lev Arkad'evich Kaluznin Ⓟ
- 1996: Stefan Schwarz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Herta Freitag
I have finally found a subject where I do not need to memorize, but can think things out myself: mathematics.
