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Mathematicians Of The Day
14th December
On this day in 1900, Max Planck presented his theoretical explanation involving quanta of energy at a meeting of the Physikalische Gesellschaft in Berlin. In doing so he had to reject his belief that the second law of thermodynamics was an absolute law of nature, and accept Boltzmann's interpretation that it was a statistical law.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Brahe doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
On this day in 2013 Google released a Brahe doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1946.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1546: Tycho Brahe Ⓟ
- 1851: William James Macdonald
- 1904: Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov Ⓟ
- 1905: Jan Popken Ⓟ
- 1925: Fred Wright
- 1936: Terry Wall Ⓟ
- 1938: David Singmaster Ⓟ
Died:
- 1710: Henry Aldrich Ⓟ
- 1892: Stephen de Gurbs
- 1897: Francesco Brioschi Ⓟ
- 1927: Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotsky Ⓟ
- 1987: Marguerite Lehr Ⓟ
- 2016: Jean-Paul Pier Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Tycho Brahe
Simplicibus itaque verbis gaudet Mathematica Veritas, cum etiam per se simplex sit Veritatis oratio.
So Mathematical Truth prefers simple words since the language of Truth is itself simple.
