MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
8th December
On this day in 1610, Thomas Harriot was the first to record sunspot observations.
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
- 1917: Arthur Downing Ⓟ
- 1955: Hermann Weyl Ⓟ
- 1961: Francesco Severi Ⓟ
- 1966: Arthur Coble Ⓟ
- 1973: Griffith Evans Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Boole
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
