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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th January
On this day in 1734, Georges Buffon was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
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Born:
- 1795: Charles Whish
- 1864: Vladimir A Steklov Ⓟ
- 1873: Hans Blichfeldt Ⓟ
- 1889: Percy Daniell Ⓟ
- 1915: Mollie Orshansky Ⓟ
- 1923: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov Ⓟ
- 1930: Jacob T Schwartz Ⓟ
- 1938: Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam Ⓟ
- 1974: Talitha Washington Ⓟ
Died:
- 1586: Paul Wittich
- 1757: Bernard de Fontenelle Ⓟ
- 1799: Maria Agnesi Ⓟ
- 1848: Caroline Herschel Ⓟ
- 1939: Fabian Franklin Ⓟ
- 1942: Jerzy Rozycki Ⓟ
- 1962: Lajos Dávid Ⓟ
- 1973: Harry Vandiver Ⓟ
- 1975: Petr Sergeevich Novikov Ⓟ
- 1989: Marshall Stone Ⓟ
- 2005: Rimhak Ree Ⓟ
- 2012: Herbert Pahlings Ⓟ
- 2023: Mikio Sato Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bernard de Fontenelle
Nothing proves more clearly that the mind seeks truth, and nothing reflects more glory upon it, than the delight it takes, sometimes in spite of itself, in the driest and thorniest researches of algebra.
