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Mathematicians Of The Day
17th December
On this day in 1610 Father Christoph Clavius SJ, the senior mathematician at the Collegio Romano wrote to inform Galileo that he and other Jesuits at the college had seen the four moons of Jupiter. Only two months earlier he had said that if Galileo saw "planets" around Jupiter in his glass, then he must have put them there.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Chatelet doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
On this day in 2012 Google released a Chatelet doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1706: Émilie du Châtelet Ⓟ
- 1835: Felice Casorati Ⓟ
- 1842: Sophus Lie Ⓟ
- 1863: Henri Padé Ⓟ
- 1884: Heinrich Scholz Ⓟ
- 1893: Petre Sergescu Ⓟ
- 1894: Hendrik Kramers Ⓟ
- 1900: Mary Cartwright Ⓟ
- 1938: Bella Abramovna Subbotovskaya Ⓟ
Died:
- 1613: Duncan Liddel Ⓟ
- 1851: Olinde Rodrigues Ⓟ
- 1853: Robert Anstice Ⓟ
- 1907: William Thomson Ⓟ
- 1912: Spiru Haret Ⓟ
- 1940: Alicia Boole Stott Ⓟ
- 1964: Jurjen Koksma Ⓟ
- 1976: Archil Kirillovich Kharadze Ⓟ
- 1978: Friedrich Horn Ⓟ
- 1999: Jürgen Moser Ⓟ
- 2002: Aleksei Vasilevich Pogorelov Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Thomson
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherialization of common sense.
