22nd November

Mathematicians who were born or died on 22nd November

Mathematicians born on this day:

1753 : Dugald Stewart
1803 : Bellavitis
1840 : Lemoine
1910 : Burton Jones

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1784 : Frisi
1930 : Pinkerton
1944 : Eddington
1986 : Chudakov
1996 : Garrett Birkhoff
2007 : Mitchell

Click here for a poster of Arthur Eddington

Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty

A quotation for today

Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)

I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.
[(136 x 2²⁵⁶) Tarner lecture 1938]

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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