Mathematicians Of The Day
5th November
On this day in 1828, Augustus De Morgan, age 22, gave his introductory lecture, On the study of mathematics, at London University. He was the first mathematics professor at the university.
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Born:
- 1848: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Ⓟ
- 1866: Alfred Tauber Ⓟ
- 1872: John Meiklejohn Ⓟ
- 1899: Karl Dörge Ⓟ
- 1916: Edmund Hlawka Ⓟ
- 1930: Frank Adams Ⓟ
- 1952: Bob Thomason Ⓟ
Died:
- 1526: Scipione del Ferro
- 1800: Jesse Ramsden Ⓟ
- 1879: James Clerk Maxwell Ⓟ
- 1934: Walther von Dyck Ⓟ
- 1981: Stanisław Mazur Ⓟ
- 1995: Bob Thomason Ⓟ
- 2009: Chandra Kintala Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From James Clerk Maxwell
According to the theory of emission, the transmission of energy [of light] is effected by the actual transference of light-corpuscles ... According to the theory of undulation, there is a material medium which fills the space between two bodies, and it is by the action of contiguous parts of this medium that the energy is passed on ...