Mathematicians Of The Day
25th December
Because of the difference between the Gregorian and the Julian calendars, in England, Christmas Day 1642 was celebrated on Newton's birthday. We have taken his birthday as 4th January 1643.
On this day in 1656 Huygens (who was a bachelor) spent Christmas Day making the first model of a pendulum clock.
See THIS LINK.
On this day in 1656 Huygens (who was a bachelor) spent Christmas Day making the first model of a pendulum clock.
See THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 1883: Frances Chick Wood Ⓟ
- 1884: Sotero Prieto Ⓟ
- 1900: Antoni Zygmund Ⓟ
- 1901: Oene Bottema Ⓟ
- 1905: Gottfried Köthe Ⓟ
Died:
- 1921: Piers Bohl Ⓟ
- 1929: Percy MacMahon Ⓟ
- 1941: Theodor Molien Ⓟ
- 1944: Wilhelm Kutta Ⓟ
- 1981: Gheorghe Mihoc Ⓟ
- 1993: Kentaro Yano Ⓟ
- 2000: Willard Van Quine Ⓟ
- 2010: Gavin Brown Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Willard Van Quine
[The state lottery is] a public subsidy of intelligence [since] it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.