Mathematicians Of The Day
4th October
On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth satellite. It circled the earth every 96 minutes in an elliptical orbit. Pravda noted that
... theoretical work by Nikolay Ivanovich Muskhelishvili has made a fundamental contribution to this great victory.On this day in 2010 Google released a Doodle celebrating the first day of the Gregorian calendar (In fact the first day of the Gregorian calendar was 5th October 1582).
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1759: Louis Arbogast Ⓟ
- 1797: Félix Savary
- 1804: Wilhelm Weber Ⓟ
- 1874: Gheorghe Țițeica Ⓟ
- 1880: Alexander Merriles
- 1906: Mary Fasenmyer Ⓟ
- 1925: Renfrey Potts Ⓟ
- 1935: Hitoshi Kumano-Go Ⓟ
- 1936: Umirzak Sultangazin Ⓟ
Died:
- 1885: Heinrich Scherk Ⓟ
- 1918: Matteo Bottasso Ⓟ
- 1947: Max Planck Ⓟ
- 1954: Georg Hamel Ⓟ
- 1973: Hermann Kober Ⓟ
- 1974: Robert Lee Moore Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Robert Lee Moore
That student is best taught who is told the least.