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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.
See THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 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 John Pell
No one, so far as i know, has dared to attempt this task, namely, to register in a catalogue all the simple sounds of human language, and all the simple concepts of the mind, and to express the compications of the latter by means of the former. May God ... permit me to begin, complete, and publish that work.
