Mathematicians Of The Day
26th August
On this day in 1346, the English won a decisive victory over the French at Crécy. Thomas Bradwardine was in the invading force.
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Born:
- 1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert Ⓟ
- 1856: Ida Metcalf Ⓟ
- 1875: Giuseppe Vitali Ⓟ
- 1899: Wolfgang Krull Ⓟ
- 1918: Katherine Johnson Ⓟ
- 1920: Richard Bellman Ⓟ
- 1921: Shimshon Amitsur Ⓟ
- 1924: Elena Moldovan Popoviciu Ⓟ
- 1951: Edward Witten Ⓟ
Died:
- 1349: Thomas Bradwardine Ⓟ
- 1572: Peter Ramus Ⓟ
- 1713: Denis Papin Ⓟ
- 1865: Johann Franz Encke Ⓟ
- 1961: Howard Percy Robertson Ⓟ
- 1962: David Kennedy Fraser
- 1973: James Paton
- 1977: Robert Schatten
- 1992: Daniel Gorenstein Ⓟ
- 2001: Béla Gyires Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Johann Heinrich Lambert
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.