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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th December
On this day in 1911 Henri Poincaré wrote the editor of a mathematical journal to ask if, contrary to custom, an unfinished piece of work could be published. He explained that at his age he might not be able to finish it, but that his work might provide ideas for another. The paper was published and not long afterwards George Birkhoff completed the solution. Poincaré died the following year.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Hopper doodle
On this day in 2013 Google released a Hopper doodle
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1667: William Whiston Ⓟ
- 1839: Gustav Roch Ⓟ
- 1883: Nikolai Luzin Ⓟ
- 1883: Aleksandr Nekrasov Ⓟ
- 1895: Lancelot Hogben Ⓟ
- 1902: Hans Schwerdtfeger Ⓟ
- 1905: Emanuel Sperner Ⓟ
- 1906: Grace Hopper Ⓟ
- 1907: Max Deuring Ⓟ
- 1916: Irving John Good Ⓟ
- 1917: Sergei Fomin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1880: Oliver Byrne Ⓟ
- 1882: Li Shanlan Ⓟ
- 1938: James Pierpont
- 1949: Rolin Wavre Ⓟ
- 1958: John Jackson Ⓟ
- 2012: Vitaly Vitalievich Fedorchuk Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Grace Hopper
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
