Mathematicians Of The Day
12th February
On this day in 1826, Nikolai Lobachevsky delivered a paper before the mathematics and physics departments of Kazan University on his "imaginary geometry". This was what is now known as hyperbolic geometry.
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Born:
- 1856: Arnold Droz-Farny
- 1870: Horatio Carslaw Ⓟ
- 1889: Enrico Bompiani Ⓟ
- 1905: Harold Ruse Ⓟ
- 1908: Jacques Herbrand Ⓟ
- 1914: Hanna Neumann Ⓟ
- 1918: Julian Schwinger Ⓟ
- 1921: Kathleen McNulty Antonelli Ⓟ
- 1929: Aleksei Kostrikin Ⓟ
- 1941: Dennis Sullivan Ⓟ
Died:
- 1916: Richard Dedekind Ⓟ
- 1958: Douglas Hartree Ⓟ
- 1960: Oskar Anderson Ⓟ
- 1962: Joseph Pérès Ⓟ
- 1977: Ebenezer Cunningham Ⓟ
- 1980: Einar Carl Hille Ⓟ
- 2001: Herbert Robbins Ⓟ
- 2017: Juan Jorge Schäffer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Richard Dedekind
Numbers are the free creation of the human mind.