Mathematicians Of The Day
13th October
On this day in 1884, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was born when an international conference in Washington, DC, decided
to adopt the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude.
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Born:
- 1885: Viggo Brun Ⓟ
- 1890: Georg Feigl Ⓟ
- 1893: Kurt Reidemeister Ⓟ
- 1932: John Thompson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1715: Nicolas Malebranche Ⓟ
- 1913: James Stuart Ⓟ
- 1913: Gyula Vályi Ⓟ
- 1928: George Bryan Ⓟ
- 1979: Giovanni Sansone Ⓟ
- 1990: Hans Freudenthal Ⓟ
- 2001: Olga Arsenievna Oleinik Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Nicolas Malebranche
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.