Mathematicians Of The Day
19th December
On this day in 1894, Karl Pearson was the first to use the term Binomial distribution in a paper submitted to the Royal Society.
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Born:
- 1783: Charles-Julien Brianchon
- 1854: Marcel Brillouin Ⓟ
- 1887: Charles Galton Darwin Ⓟ
- 1910: Helmut Wielandt Ⓟ
- 1912: Demetrios Magiros Ⓟ
- 1918: Leon Mirsky Ⓟ
- 1932: Crispin Nash-Williams Ⓟ
- 1937: Barry Mazur Ⓟ
- 1944: Mitchell Feigenbaum Ⓟ
Died:
- 1939: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave Ⓟ
- 1952: Otto Szász Ⓟ
- 1993: Hans Rohrbach Ⓟ
- 2001: Judita Cofman Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Barry Mazur
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now . . . , number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).