12th December

Mathematicians Of The Day

12th December

On this day in 1901, Marconi transmitted the first transatlantic radio signal between the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall and St John's, Newfoundland.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2004.

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Born:

1803: James Challis Ⓟ
1832: Ludwig Sylow Ⓟ
1887: Guido Ascoli Ⓟ
1913: Emma Castelnuovo Ⓟ
1914: András Rapcsák Ⓟ
1914: José Sebastiao e Silva Ⓟ

Died:

1685: John Pell Ⓟ
1889: Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky Ⓟ
1919: Paul Stäckel Ⓟ
1921: Henrietta Swan Leavitt Ⓟ
1965: Tibor Radó Ⓟ
1977: Arthur Erdélyi Ⓟ
1994: Nicolaas Kuiper Ⓟ
2014: Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From James Challis

It seems to me that the tendency of our mathematical instruction and... examinations has been of late years to promote the acquisition of a knowledge of formal relations of symbols and the power of readily producing them,

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