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April 29, 1854: Henri Poincaré is born
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Scientific field: Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Poincaré conjecture, Three-body problem, Topology, Special relativity
Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians and mathematical physicists at the end of 19th century. He made a series of profound innovations in geometry, the theory of differential equations, electromagnetism, topology, and the philosophy of [...]
April 25, 1903: Andrey Kolmogorov is born
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987)
Scientific field: Mathematics
Known for: Information theory, Harmonic analysis, Number theory, Probability theory, Set theory
Andrey Kolmogorov was a Russian mathematician whose work influenced many branches of modern mathematics, and best remembered for a brilliant series of papers on the theory of probability.
Of the many areas of pure and applied mathematical research to which [...]
April 21, 1774: Jean-Baptiste Biot is born
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774-1862)
Scientific field: Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Biot-Savart law
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist who helped formulate the Biot-Savart law, which concerns magnetic fields, and laid the basis for saccharimetry, a useful technique of analyzing sugar solutions.
Educated at the École Polytechnique, Biot was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Beauvais in 1797, [...]
April 17, 1863: Augustus E. H. Love is born
Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)
Scientific field: Mathematics
Known for: Theory of elasticity
Augustus E. H. Love was a British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him.
Love held the Sedleian professorship of natural philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1899 to 1940. In his analysis of earthquake [...]
April 15, 1707: Leonhard Euler is born
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
Scientific field: Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Euler’s number
Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler was one of the founders of pure mathematics. He not only made decisive and formative contributions to the subjects of geometry, calculus, mechanics, and number theory but also developed methods for solving problems in observational astronomy and demonstrated useful applications of [...]
