Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd November
On this day in 2022, Jan Łukasiewicz's remains were reburied in Warsaw's Old Powązki Cemetery. He had died and been buried in Dublin in 1956. Łukasiewicz is best known as the inventer of "Polish notation".
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Born:
- 1753: Dugald Stewart Ⓟ
- 1803: Giusto Bellavitis Ⓟ
- 1837: Hermann Bleuler Ⓟ
- 1840: Émile Lemoine Ⓟ
- 1875: Louis N G Filon Ⓟ
- 1909: Ottó Varga Ⓟ
- 1910: Floyd Burton Jones Ⓟ
Died:
- 1784: Paolo Frisi Ⓟ
- 1930: Peter Pinkerton Ⓟ
- 1944: Arthur Eddington Ⓟ
- 1986: Nikolai Grigor'evich Chudakov Ⓟ
- 1996: Garrett Birkhoff Ⓟ
- 2001: Luís Antoni Santaló Ⓟ
- 2007: Ronald Mitchell Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Arthur Eddington
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.