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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th January
On this day in 1610, Galileo first spotted that Jupiter had moons. By the 13th he had discovered four of them.
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Born:
- 1859: Georges Humbert Ⓟ
- 1871: Émile Borel Ⓟ
- 1904: Gordon Whyburn Ⓟ
- 1907: Raymond Paley Ⓟ
- 1922: Leopoldo Nachbin Ⓟ
- 1937: Evgenii Yakovlevich Khruslov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1893: Josef Stefan Ⓟ
- 1935: Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky Ⓟ
- 1955: Edward Kasner Ⓟ
- 1974: Charles Coulson Ⓟ
- 1974: Philip Stein Ⓟ
- 1989: Frank Adams Ⓟ
- 1998: Richard Hamming Ⓟ
- 2010: Carlo Cercignani Ⓟ
- 2012: Herbert Wilf Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Frank Adams
Any friend of is a friend of mine.
