Mathematicians Of The Day
25th July
On this day in 1610, Galileo first observed the rings of Saturn through a telescope without realising what they were.
On this day in 2022 Google released a Banach doodle (commemorating the day in 1922 he officially became a professor).
On this day in 2022 Google released a Banach doodle (commemorating the day in 1922 he officially became a professor).
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Born:
- 1573: Christoph Scheiner Ⓟ
- 1808: Johann Benedict Listing Ⓟ
- 1854: Alfred Barnard Basset Ⓟ
- 1896: Daniel O'Connell Ⓟ
- 1901: Richard Gwilt
- 1905: Thomas Graham Ⓟ
- 1925: Richard Kadison Ⓟ
Died:
- 1831: Fearon Fallows Ⓟ
- 1832: František Josef Gerstner Ⓟ
- 1953: Alice Bache Gould Ⓟ
- 1980: Euphemia Lofton Haynes Ⓟ
- 1992: Ralph Boas Ⓟ
- 2016: Patrick Keast Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Christoph Scheiner
But since this matter, not only new but also difficult, was perceived to be in many ways contrary to the opinion of the philosophers, lest something would be hastily and rashly published by someone in that university whose retraction would then be difficult and unseemly, my superiors ordered me to proceed cautiously and slowly, until the phenomenon itself had been corroborated by the experience of others, and not to stray casually from the trodden path of the philosophers without evidence to the contrary, and not to publish my observations in the letters to Welser under my name.