MacTutor
Mathematicians Of The Day
21st December
On this day in 1807, Joseph Fourier's memoir On the Propagation of Heat in Solid Bodies. was read to the Paris Institute. A committee consisting of Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Lacroix was set up to report on the work. The committee was dubious about his use of expansion into trigonometric series.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1540: Thomas Allen Ⓟ
- 1821: Samuel Haughton Ⓟ
- 1878: Jan Łukasiewicz Ⓟ
- 1889: Sewall Green Wright Ⓟ
- 1915: Alberto Dou Ⓟ
- 1921: Edith Hirsch Luchins Ⓟ
- 1926: Rex Tims
- 1932: John Ringrose Ⓟ
Died:
- 1912: Paul Gordan Ⓟ
- 1919: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin Ⓟ
- 1954: Petre Sergescu Ⓟ
- 1960: Eric Temple Bell Ⓟ
- 1976: Vijay Patodi Ⓟ
- 1980: Vladimir Potapov Ⓟ
- 1987: Eugene Lukacs Ⓟ
- 2002: Arnljot Høyland Ⓟ
- 2016: Welington de Melo Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Eric Temple Bell
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
