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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th April
On this day in 1892, Hermite wrote to Stieltjes: -
You state this result and then try to mortify me by saying that it is easy to prove. Since I can't succeed in doing it I appeal to your good nature to help me out of this difficulty.The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1989.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1832: Robert Tucker Ⓟ
- 1874: Edward Huntington Ⓟ
- 1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein Ⓟ
- 1898: William Kermack Ⓟ
- 1922: Asger Aaboe Ⓟ
Died:
- 1876: Osip Somov Ⓟ
- 1902: Lazarus Fuchs Ⓟ
- 1920: Srinivasa Ramanujan Ⓟ
- 1946: Louis Bachelier Ⓟ
- 1951: Arnold Sommerfeld Ⓟ
- 1976: Carl Boyer Ⓟ
- 1994: Haim Nessyahu Ⓟ
- 2011: Hans Wussing Ⓟ
- 2014: Jacqueline Ferrand Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ludwig Wittgenstein
Even when all the possible scientific questions have been answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty