Mathematicians Of The Day
16th June
On this day in 1902, Bertrand Russell wrote to Gottlob Frege to say that in his Grundgesetze der Arithmetik:
On this day in 2003 Google released an Escher doodle (a day early).
... there is just one point where I have encountered a difficulty.The difficulty was the Russell Paradox. Frege responded
... your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build arithmetic.
On this day in 2003 Google released an Escher doodle (a day early).
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1640: Jacques Ozanam
- 1839: Julius Petersen Ⓟ
- 1866: James Pierpont
- 1888: Alexander Friedmann Ⓟ
- 1915: John Tukey Ⓟ
Died:
- 1902: Ernst Schröder Ⓟ
- 1910: Julius Weingarten Ⓟ
- 1948: Marcel Brillouin Ⓟ
- 1970: Sydney Chapman Ⓟ
- 1975: Karl Dörge Ⓟ
- 1990: Tom Cowling Ⓟ
- 2001: Alessandro Faedo Ⓟ
- 2004: Herman Goldstine Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Tukey
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.