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Mathematicians Of The Day
23rd March
On this day in 1881, J J Sylvester wrote to Arthur Cayley to announce,
On this day in 2015 Google released an Emmy Noether doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1955.
I believe that I have proved Gordan's Theorem, and can assign a superior limit to the number of fundamental invariants.His proof was founded on the prospect that a certain sequence increased without bound. By October he knew that it did not.
On this day in 2015 Google released an Emmy Noether doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1955.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace Ⓟ
- 1754: Georg Vega Ⓟ
- 1795: Bernt Holmboe Ⓟ
- 1842: Susan Cunningham Ⓟ
- 1862: Eduard Study Ⓟ
- 1882: Emmy Noether Ⓟ
- 1897: John Synge Ⓟ
- 1907: Hassler Whitney Ⓟ
- 1934: Ludwig Faddeev Ⓟ
- 1942: Timothy Pedley Ⓟ
Died:
- 1924: William Jack Ⓟ
- 1952: Paul Dienes Ⓟ
- 1961: Max Mason Ⓟ
- 1963: Thoralf Skolem Ⓟ
- 1979: Ivo Lah Ⓟ
- 1981: Beatrice Tinsley Ⓟ
- 2007: Paul Cohen Ⓟ
- 2011: Jean Bartik Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Pierre-Simon Laplace
[said about Napier's logarithms:]
...by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty