22nd December

Mathematicians Of The Day

22nd December

On this day in 2012, the first National Mathematics Day was celebrated in India. It is celebrated every year on Ramanujan's birthday.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.

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Born:

1765: Johann Friedrich Pfaff Ⓟ
1819: Pierre Bonnet Ⓟ
1824: Francesco Brioschi Ⓟ
1859: Otto Hölder Ⓟ
1863: Domenico Montesano Ⓟ
1872: Zdzisław Krygowski Ⓟ
1877: Tommaso Boggio Ⓟ
1887: Srinivasa Ramanujan Ⓟ
1897: Vojtěch Jarník Ⓟ
1898: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock Ⓟ
1906: Boris Yakovlevich Levin Ⓟ

Died:

1640: Jean Beaugrand Ⓟ
1660: Andrea Tacquet
1693: Elisabetha Koopman Ⓟ
1867: Jean-Victor Poncelet Ⓟ
1885: August Yulevich Davidov Ⓟ
1928: Henry Fine Ⓟ
1994: John Todd Ⓟ
2002: Enriqueta González Baz Ⓟ
2018: Jean Bourgain Ⓟ

Quotation of the day

From Srinivasa Ramanujan

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

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