April 25, 2004
Born on this date
4/25 has been a good day for science. From another website that can suck days away from your life if you let it.
 | Felix Klein, 1849, DusseldorfHe was born on 25/4/1849 and delighted in pointing out that each of the day (52), month (22), and year (432) was the square of a prime. |
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."-- Klein, Quoted in C B Boyer, The Invention of Analytic Geometry, Scientific American 180 (1949)
| Wolfgang Pauli, 1900, Vienna. Edwin Wilson, 1879, Hartford. Andrey Kolmogorov, 1903, Tambov Province (Russia) |  |
After mentioning the highly significant paper Analytic methods in probability theory which Kolmogorov published in 1938 laying the foundations of the theory of Markov random processes, they continue to describe:... his ideas in set-theoretic topology, approximation theory, the theory of turbulent flow, functional analysis, the foundations of geometry, and the history and methodology of mathematics. [His contributions to] each of these branches ... [is] a single whole, where a serious advance in one field leads to a substantial enrichment of the others.
Siméon-Denis Poisson, however, died on this date in 1840.
Posted by sciencegrrl at April 25, 2004 05:46 PM
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