Mathematicians Of The Day
8th December
On this day in 1610, Thomas Harriot was the first to record sunspot observations.
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Born:
- 1508: Gemma Frisius Ⓟ
- 1594: Pierre Petit
- 1768: Li Rui
- 1865: Jacques Hadamard Ⓟ
- 1883: Ludwig Berwald Ⓟ
- 1892: Joseph Burchnall Ⓟ
- 1919: Julia Bowman Robinson Ⓟ
- 1919: Ian Sneddon Ⓟ
- 1948: Luis Caffarelli Ⓟ
Died:
- 1632: Albert Girard Ⓟ
- 1632: Philip van Lansberge Ⓟ
- 1864: George Boole Ⓟ
- 1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev Ⓟ
- 1896: John Wilson
- 1917: Arthur Downing Ⓟ
- 1955: Hermann Weyl Ⓟ
- 1961: Francesco Severi Ⓟ
- 1966: Arthur Coble Ⓟ
- 1973: Griffith Evans Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From George Boole
Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavouring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.