Mathematicians Of The Day
18th September
On this day in 1846, Le Verrier wrote to Johann Galle at the Berlin Observatory asking him to look for a planet at the position he predicted. Galle located Neptune five days later.
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On this day in 2013 Google released a Foucault doodle.
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On this day in 2013 Google released a Foucault doodle.
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Born:
- 1752: Adrien-Marie Legendre Ⓟ
- 1819: Léon Foucault Ⓟ
- 1863: William Metzler Ⓟ
- 1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian Ⓟ
- 1909: Johannes Haantjes Ⓟ
Died:
- 1783: Leonhard Euler Ⓟ
- 1891: William Ferrel Ⓟ
- 1896: Hippolyte Fizeau Ⓟ
- 1969: Joseph Pierce Ⓟ
- 1977: Paul Bernays Ⓟ
- 2002: Siobhán Vernon Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Leonhard Euler
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.