Mathematicians Of The Day

29th November



On this day in 1114, an earthquake devastated Cilicia (now in Turkey). In the town of Mamistra (Misis), the young mathematician, Adelard of Bath, travelling in the Middle East to study the wisdom of the Arabs, clung to a stone bridge in fear for his life.

On this day in 2017 Google released a Doppler doodle

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Quotation of the day

From Mary Somerville
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.
Quoted in Martha Somerville, Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville (Boston, 1874).