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Mathematicians Of The Day
23rd March
On this day in 1881, J J Sylvester wrote to Arthur Cayley to announce,
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.
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Born:
- 1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace Ⓟ
- 1754: Georg Vega Ⓟ
- 1795: Bernt Holmboe Ⓟ
- 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 Ⓟ
- 2007: Paul Cohen Ⓟ
- 2011: Jean Bartik Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Pierre-Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
(Allegedly his last words.)
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty