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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th December
On this day in 1592, Galileo gave his inaugural lecture and began a period of 18 years at the University of Padua, years which he later described as the happiest of his life.
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Born:
- 1823: Leopold Kronecker Ⓟ
- 1826: Christian Wiener Ⓟ
- 1830: Luigi Cremona Ⓟ
- 1924: Mary Ellen Rudin Ⓟ
- 1927: Hoàng Tụy Ⓟ
- 1936: Oleksandr Mikolaiovich Sharkovsky Ⓟ
- 1953: Zoltán Balogh Ⓟ
Died:
- 1912: George Darwin Ⓟ
- 1928: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Ⓟ
- 1952: Forest Ray Moulton Ⓟ
- 1979: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Ⓟ
- 2011: Tonny Springer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Leopold Kronecker
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
[The good Lord made the integers, all else is the work of man.]
