{"id":3498,"date":"2012-09-07T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2012-09-07T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:00:19","slug":"day-mathematics-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/09\/07\/day-mathematics-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in Mathematics History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polya\"<\/p>\n

I enjoy reading about mathematics history. One of my favorite websites for this is\u00a0http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Day_files\/Now.html<\/a>\u00a0hosted by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland<\/a>. Today’s mathematician births and deaths are shown below. This page also has some quotations from the day’s featured mathematicians. The MAA also has a nice page\u00a0http:\/\/mathdl.maa.org<\/a>. A listing from the MAA about today is shown below also.<\/p>\n

I also enjoy reading a theorem for the day. Check out\u00a0http:\/\/www.theoremoftheday.org\/display\/<\/a> by Robin Whitty for today’s theorem.<\/p>\n

Do you know of any other good websites with information for “This Day in Mathematics History”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mathematicians born on this day:<\/strong><\/strong>1707 :\u00a0Buffon<\/a>
\n1819 :\u00a0Bouquet<\/a>
\n1901 :\u00a0Robb<\/a>
\n1903 :\u00a0Dudley Littlewood<\/a>
\n1915 :\u00a0Ito<\/a>
\n1948 :\u00a0Praeger<\/a>
\n1955 :\u00a0Zelmanov<\/a><\/td>\n		Mathematicians who died on this day:<\/strong><\/span>1682 :\u00a0Caramuel<\/a>
\n1918 :\u00a0Sylow<\/a>
\n1936 :\u00a0Grossmann<\/a>
\n1947 :\u00a0Cipolla<\/a>
\n1951 :\u00a0Harry Schmidt<\/a>
\n1985 :\u00a0P\u00f3lya<\/a>
\n2003 :\u00a0David Spence<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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1707<\/th>\nGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, born in Cote d’Or, France. Buffon’s needle experiment used probability to estimate pi. He introduced calculus into probability theory.More information about:
\nGeorges Buffon<\/a>
\nBuffon’s Needle<\/a>
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1918<\/th>\nLudwig Sylow died in Christiania (Oslo), Norway. He proved the famous Sylow theorems of group theory in 1872.More information about:
\nPeter Ludwig Sylow<\/a>
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1923<\/th>\nThe AMS adopted a resolution “sanctioning the establishment of a lectureship to be known as the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, the lecture to deal in semi-popular form with some aspect of mathematics or its applications.”More information about:
\nAmerican Mathematical Society<\/a>
\nGibbs Lecturers<\/a>
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1930<\/th>\nKurt Godel announced his famous Incompleteness Theorem — that there are true but unprovable statements in arithmetic — in a discussion on the foundations of mathematics organized by the Vienna Circle.More information about:
\nKurt Godel<\/a>
\nGodel’s Incompleteness Theorem<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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I enjoy reading about mathematics history. One of my favorite websites for this is\u00a0http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Day_files\/Now.html\u00a0hosted by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Today’s mathematician births and deaths are shown below. This page also has some quotations from the day’s featured … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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