A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen and Co., 1953.
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February 14th
| 1468 | Johann Werner, discoverer of prosthaphaeresis early in the sixteenth century, was born in Nuremberg, Germany.
More information about: Johann Werner Prosthaphaeresis |
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| 1814 | Laplace presented his "Essai philosophique des probabilites" to the Academie des Sciences in Paris.
More information about: Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| 1832 | Gauss to Gerling, "Let me add further that I have this day received from Hungary a little work on the non-Euclidean geometry, in which I find all my own ideas and results developed with greater elegance, although in a form so concise as to offer great difficulty to anyone not familiar with the subject. ... I regard this young geometer [Janos] Bolyai as a genius of the first order."
More information about: Janos Bolyai Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| 1943 | David Hilbert, whose famous 23 problems and whose foundational work set the course of mathematics for the 20th century, died in Gottingen, Germany.
More information about: David Hilbert |
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