Mathematicians Of The Day

7th July



On this day in 1887, Michelson and Morley began the interferometer experiment to try to detect ether. Their result supported special relativity.
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Quotation of the day

From William Feller
Probability is a mathematical discipline whose aims are akin to those, for example, of geometry of analytical mechanics. In each field we must carefully distinguish three aspects of the theory:
(a) the formal logical content,
(b) the intuitive background,
(c) the applications.
The character, and the charm, of the whole structure cannot be appreciated without considering all three aspects in their proper relation.
An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications