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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th December
On this day in 1843, John Graves wrote to William Rowan Hamilton that he had invented an eight-dimension normed division algebra he called Octaves. These were later called Octonions or (sadly for Graves!) Cayley numbers.
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The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
See THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1780: Mary Somerville Ⓟ
- 1791: Charles Babbage Ⓟ
- 1861: Friedrich Engel Ⓟ
- 1903: Stephen Bosanquet Ⓟ
- 1907: Leonard Carlitz Ⓟ
- 1924: János Aczél Ⓟ
- 1937: John Conway Ⓟ
Died:
- 1624: Simon Mayr Ⓟ
- 1889: Jenő Hunyadi Ⓟ
- 1941: Frances Hardcastle Ⓟ
- 1966: Mikhail Fedorovich Subbotin Ⓟ
- 1973: Harold Hotelling Ⓟ
- 1977: Walter R Talbot Ⓟ
- 1979: Helmut Hasse Ⓟ
- 1992: John Kemeny Ⓟ
- 1997: Cahit Arf Ⓟ
- 2006: Martin Kruskal Ⓟ
- 2011: John Howie Ⓟ
- 2018: Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Charles Babbage
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.
