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Mathematicians Of The Day
11th October
On this day in 1606, Johannes Kepler, having heard of Thomas Harriot's work in natural philosophy from his friend John Erickson wrote to ask Harriot's view on colours, refraction, and causes of the rainbow.
The banknote of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
The banknote of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2009.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1675: Samuel Clarke Ⓟ
- 1777: Barnabé Brisson Ⓟ
- 1786: Miles Bland
- 1881: Lewis Fry Richardson Ⓟ
- 1885: Alfréd Haar Ⓟ
- 1910: Cahit Arf Ⓟ
- 1923: Harish-Chandra Ⓟ
Died:
- 1697: Stephano degli Angeli Ⓟ
- 1698: William Molyneux Ⓟ
- 1708: Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus Ⓟ
- 1731: John Craig Ⓟ
- 1791: Johann Castillon
- 1825: Adrien Quentin Buée
- 1852: Gotthold Eisenstein Ⓟ
- 1940: Vito Volterra Ⓟ
- 1943: Geoffrey Bennett Ⓟ
- 1948: André Bloch
- 1979: Winifred Sargent
- 1996: Lars Ahlfors Ⓟ
- 1996: Edwin Spanier Ⓟ
- 2008: Anatolii Asirovich Goldberg Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Vito Volterra
Empires die, but Euclid's theorems keep their youth forever.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty