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    •  THE MONTH IN MATH:  October

       

      Here are the highlights from the historical world of mathematics for the month of October.  While this list is not meant to be all-encompassing, I have tried to pick out those things that I find most interesting.

       

      October 1:

      Deaths: Robert Simson (1687-1768)

       

      October 2:

      Math News: In 1667, Newton is elected a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Deaths: Paul Halmos (1916-2006) - Click here to read my post about Halmos

       

      October 3:

      Math News: In 1842, Arthur Cayley becomes the youngest fellow (21 years old) at Trinity College, Cambridge.  (See MathDLfor details.)

      Deaths: Edouard Lucas (1842-1891)

       

      October 4:

      Math News: In 1957, Sputnik is launched.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Birthdays: Wilhelm Weber (1804-1891)

      Deaths: R. L. Moore (1882-1974), Max Planck (1858-1947)

       

      October 5:

      Birthdays: Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848), Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940)

      Deaths: Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), Lodovico Ferrari (1522-1565)

       

      October 6:

      Birthdays: Richard Dedekind (1831-1916)

       

      October 7:

      Birthdays: Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Oystein Ore (1899-1968)

      Deaths: Rudolf Lipschitz (1832-1903)

       

      October 9:

      Birthdays: Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)

      Deaths: Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

       

      October 10:

      Deaths: David Gregory (1659-1708)

       

      October 11:

      Birthdays: Samuel Clarke (1675-1729)

      Deaths: Gotthold Eisenstein (1823-1852), Vito Volterra (1860-1940)

       

      October 13:

      Math News: In 1729, Euler writes to Goldbach, briefly discussing the Gamma Function.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Deaths: William Hopkins (1793-1866)

       

      October 14:

      Birthdays: Robert Simson (1687-1768)

      Deaths: Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010), Jules Richard (1862-1956)

       

      October 15:

      Birthdays: Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)

       

      October 16:

      Math News: In 1707, Roger Cotes is elected the first Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge.  In 1797, Gauss writes in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.  In 1843, Sir William Hamilton invents quaternions during a walk along the Royal Canal in Dublin.  So excited, he uses his pocketknife to scratch the multiplication formulas on the side of Brougham Bridge.  (See MathDL for details.)

       

      October 17:

      Birthdays: Jacob(II) Bernoulli (1759-1789)

      Deaths: Gustav Kirchhoff (1824-1887), Frank Morley (1860-1937), Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963)

       

      October 18:

      Math News: In 1640, Fermat first mentions his Little Theorem in a letter to Frenicle de Bessey.  In 1921, Bohr introduces the world to the Bohr Model - his quantum model of the atom.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Deaths: John Wilson (1741-1793)

       

      October 19:

      Birthdays: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)

       

      October 20:

      Deaths: Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

       

      October 21:

      Birthdays: Nicolaus(I) Bernoulli (1687-1759), Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

      Deaths: Waclaw Sierpinski (1882-1969)

       

      October 24:

      Math News: In 1676, Newton writes a summary for Leibniz regarding the development of fluxions and power series.  (SeeMathDL for details.)

      Birthdays: Philipp von Seidel (1821-1896), Wilhelm Weber (1804-1891)

      Deaths: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

       

      October 25:

      Math News: In 1713, Leibniz writes to Johann Bernoulli stating that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent (Alternating Series Test).  (See MathDL for details.)

      Birthdays: Evariste Galois (1811-1832)

      Deaths: Giovanni Saccheri (1667-1733), Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647)

       

      October 26:

      Birthdays: Georg Frobenius (1849-1917)

      Deaths: Mark Kac (1914-1984)

       

      October 27:

      Math News: In 1654, Pascal writes to Fermat, complimenting him for his solution to the Problem of Points.  (See MathDL for details.)

       

      October 28:

      Deaths: John Wallis (1616-1703)

       

      October 29:

      Math News: In 1669, Newton, at the age of 26, is appointed Lucasian Professor at Cambridge.  In 1675, Leibniz first uses the integral sign and the 'd' for differential.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Deaths: Jean d'Alembert (1717-1783)

       

      October 30:

      Birthdays: Harold Davenport (1907-1969)

      Deaths: Willebrord Snell (1580-1626)

       

      October 31:

      Math News: In 1903, Frank Cole gives his famous silent presentation of his paper entitled, "On the factoring of large numbers."  At the chalkboard, he shows that the number (2^67) - 1 is not a Mersenne prime by computing the product of 193,707,721 and 761,838,257,287 - by hand!  Click here to read my post about Frank Cole.  (See MathDL for details.)

      Birthdays: Ronald Graham (1935-present), Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)

       

      References: If you are interested in additional facts or birthdays, please visit the sites that I used to generate these lists:

      • http://mathdl.maa.org - general mathematical facts
      • http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk:80/~history/Day_files/Now.html - birthdays

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