Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd December
On this day in 1942, Enrico Fermi oversaw the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in a disused football stadium in Chicago. Exactly 25 years later Italy published a postage stamp commemorating the anniversary.
See THIS LINK.
See THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1754: Nicolas-François Canard
- 1831: Paul du Bois-Reymond Ⓟ
- 1865: Niels Nielsen Ⓟ
- 1869: Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov Ⓟ
- 1902: Hubert Wall Ⓟ
- 1911: Abraham Gelbart Ⓟ
- 1914: Robert Dilworth Ⓟ
Died:
- 1594: Gerard Mercator Ⓟ
- 1873: Karl Gräffe
- 1943: Matthew Fry
- 1961: Arthur Read Ⓟ
- 1966: L E J Brouwer Ⓟ
- 1977: Ilya Vekua Ⓟ
- 1982: Geoffrey Timms Ⓟ
- 1992: Aldo Ghizzetti Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From L E J Brouwer
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear.