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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th January
On this day in 1711, James Stirling matriculated at Balliol College Oxford. His Jacobite sympathies did not allow him to swear an oath of loyalty to the crown and so ultimately he was unable to graduate.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1973.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1853: Fabian Franklin Ⓟ
- 1856: Luigi Bianchi Ⓟ
- 1880: Paul Ehrenfest Ⓟ
- 1901: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky Ⓟ
- 1908: Jacob Bronowski Ⓟ
- 1927: Gyula Maurer Ⓟ
Died:
- 1873: Charles Dupin Ⓟ
- 1950: André Sainte-Laguë Ⓟ
- 1963: Edward Titchmarsh Ⓟ
- 1981: Rufus Isaacs Ⓟ
- 2011: John Herivel Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jacob Bronowski
Sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has lived before us - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty