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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th December
On this day in 1867, James Clerk Maxwell wrote to Peter Guthrie Tait with a thought experiment for violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics that came to be known as Maxwell's Demon. It was Lord Kelvin who would coin the term for the idea in 1874.
On this day in 2017 Google released a Born doodle
On this day in 2017 Google released a Born doodle
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Born:
- 1833: François Folie Ⓟ
- 1840: Carl Johannes Thomae Ⓟ
- 1845: Vaclav Jerabek
- 1863: Annie Jump Cannon Ⓟ
- 1870: George Lidstone Ⓟ
- 1873: Josip Plemelj Ⓟ
- 1882: Max Born Ⓟ
- 1884: Otto Szász Ⓟ
- 1906: Samarendra Nath Roy Ⓟ
- 1926: Jean-Pierre Kahane Ⓟ
Died:
- 1784: Anders Lexell Ⓟ
- 1819: Monteiro da Rocha
- 1906: Amédée Mannheim Ⓟ
- 1910: Jules Tannery Ⓟ
- 1941: Émile Picard Ⓟ
- 1998: André Lichnerowicz Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Émile Picard
True rigour is productive, being distinguished in this from another rigour which is purely formal and tiresome, casting a shadow over the problems it touches.
