Mathematicians Of The Day
5th March
On this day in 1616, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, the chief theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, issued a decree which declared Copernicanism false and erroneous. When Galileo subsequently ignored the decree, he was put on trial and held under house arrest for the final eight years of his life.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Mercator doodle.
On this day in 2015 Google released a Mercator doodle.
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Born:
- 1512: Gerard Mercator Ⓟ
- 1574: William Oughtred Ⓟ
- 1624: John Collins Ⓟ
- 1779: Benjamin Gompertz Ⓟ
- 1817: Angelo Genocchi Ⓟ
- 1842: Heinrich Weber Ⓟ
- 1872: Gustave Dumas Ⓟ
- 1880: Sergei Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1885: Pauline Sperry Ⓟ
- 1887: Otto Haupt Ⓟ
- 1915: Laurent Schwartz Ⓟ
- 1917: István Fenyő Ⓟ
- 1924: Ottó Steinfeld Ⓟ
- 1931: Vera Pless Ⓟ
- 1937: Ron Book
- 1960: 'Mamphono Khaketla Ⓟ
Died:
- 1827: Pierre-Simon Laplace Ⓟ
- 1875: Claude-Louis Mathieu Ⓟ
- 1925: Johan Ludwig Jensen Ⓟ
- 1927: Franz Mertens Ⓟ
- 1930: Christine Ladd-Franklin Ⓟ
- 1954: Julian Coolidge Ⓟ
- 1973: Margaret Hilary Ashworth Millington Ⓟ
- 1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch Ⓟ
- 2013: James Clunie Ⓟ
- 2018: Clarence Francis Stephens Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Julian Coolidge
[Upon proving that the best betting strategy for "Gambler's Ruin" was to bet all on the first trial.]
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.