MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
8th December
On this day in 1610, Thomas Harriot was the first to record sunspot observations.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2021.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2021.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1508: Gemma Frisius Ⓟ
- 1594: Pierre Petit
- 1768: Li Rui
- 1865: Jacques Hadamard Ⓟ
- 1883: Ludwig Berwald Ⓟ
- 1892: Joseph Burchnall Ⓟ
- 1919: Julia Bowman Robinson Ⓟ
- 1919: Ian Sneddon Ⓟ
- 1948: Luis Caffarelli Ⓟ
Died:
- 1632: Albert Girard Ⓟ
- 1632: Philip van Lansberge Ⓟ
- 1864: George Boole Ⓟ
- 1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev Ⓟ
- 1896: John Wilson
- 1912: Samuel Saunder
- 1917: Arthur Downing Ⓟ
- 1955: Hermann Weyl Ⓟ
- 1961: Francesco Severi Ⓟ
- 1966: Arthur Coble Ⓟ
- 1973: Griffith Evans Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Boole
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
