MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
6th October
On this day in 1570, Girolamo Cardano was imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.
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Born:
- 1552: Matteo Ricci Ⓟ
- 1745: Adrien Quentin Buée
- 1784: Charles Dupin Ⓟ
- 1795: Olinde Rodrigues Ⓟ
- 1831: Richard Dedekind Ⓟ
- 1903: Ernest Walton Ⓟ
- 1908: Sergei Sobolev Ⓟ
- 1918: Abraham Robinson Ⓟ
- 1925: Lloyd Williams Ⓟ
- 1936: Robert P Langlands Ⓟ
Died:
- 1840: François Budan
- 1855: August Crelle Ⓟ
- 1878: Daniel da Silva Ⓟ
- 1880: Benjamin Peirce Ⓟ
- 1954: Ernst Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1958: Bibhutibhushan Datta Ⓟ
- 1959: Balthasar van der Pol Ⓟ
- 1968: Phyllis Nicolson Ⓟ
- 1979: Dudley Littlewood Ⓟ
- 1986: Alexander Kronrod Ⓟ
- 2015: Ivan Vidav Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Benjamin Peirce
Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty