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Mathematicians Of The Day
5th February
On this day in 1835 a ceremony to honor The Genius and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton was organized by the citizens of the Lincolnshire, his area of birth, a few years after the centennial of his death. By unanimous choice, the committee selected as the speaker, the 19 year-old George Boole.
All present were struck by the youthful age of the speaker and not a little amazed by both his knowledge of the subject and his confident lecturing style.
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Born:
- 1772: Bartholomew Lloyd Ⓟ
- 1797: Jean-Marie Duhamel Ⓟ
- 1902: Theodor Estermann Ⓟ
- 1907: Wilhelm Magnus Ⓟ
- 1930: Kazimierz Urbanik Ⓟ
- 1932: Lee Segel Ⓟ
Died:
- 1881: Thomas Carlyle Ⓟ
- 1889: Ole Jacob Broch Ⓟ
- 1915: Henri Delannoy Ⓟ
- 1939: Gheorghe Țițeica Ⓟ
- 1947: Benjamin Franklin Finkel Ⓟ
- 1977: Oskar Klein Ⓟ
- 1988: Dorothy Bernstein Ⓟ
- 1997: Frederick Justin Almgren Ⓟ
- 2003: Werner Romberg Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Thomas Carlyle
'Genius' (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
