check here.

 

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Day_files/Year.html

 

no one famous was born on my birth day. so sad

1 born, 3 died.

 

Ha.

Quite a few for May 6`th, however I share a B`Day with someone quite famous, that isn`t on that list. you all know him as Tony Blair!

Mathematicians born on this day:

 

1527 : Dee

1741 : Hindenburg

 

Mathematicians who died on this day:

 

1807 : Johann(III) Bernoulli

1941 : Privalov

 

 

Don't know much about any of these guys.

u telling me u havent ever heard of bernoulli

?

lets get back on track eh

Not that I haven't heard of them, don't know much about them.

hey, my b-days the day be4 yt's!

fluke!

on may 5:

 

1580 : Faulhaber

1833 : Fuchs

1842 : Heinrich Weber

1883 : Wheeler

1895 : Bergman

1897 : Tricomi

1923 : Morawetz

 

 

Mathematicians who died on this day:

 

1859 : Dirichlet

1957 : Löwenheim

 

thats 7 born

2 dead,

thats pretty good id say

 

and the quote of the day! i thought that this was quite funny

 

Stefan Bergman (1895 - 1977)

 

"I speak twelve languages: English is the bestest."

they are quite famous in the mathematical and physics world

 

here are some of the stuff they (the family) contributed

 

Bernoulli's Principle states that as the speed of a moving fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases. (really important in aerodynamics and such)

 

Bernoulli distribution is also the most basic discrete probability distribution

 

having two possible outcomes. n=0 (failure)and n=1(success) which p being probability of suceeess and 1-p of failure.

 

some wonderful anecdotes here: i love reading about maths history. they fascinate me

 

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Brachistochrone.html

 

"The well known de l'Hôpital's rule is contained in this calculus book and it is therefore a result of Johann Bernoulli. In fact proof that the work was due to Bernoulli was not obtained until 1922 "

 

from

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Johann.html

1859 : Dirichlet

 

cool he's also famous.

This is where I really hate that I can recognize names but never remember what they mean until someone reminds me. I'll have to work on that.

jimi hendrix and bruce lee were born on my birthday

yeah, that happens 2 me 2

as for mathamaticians:

 

Mathematicians born on this day:

 

1867 : Arthur Dixon

1909 : Malcev

1923 : Jesse Wilkins

 

Mathematicians who died on this day:

 

1754 : de Moivre

1849 : Ruan Yuan

1852 : Lovelace

1904 : Paul Tannery

Sid Vicious, Bono, Fred Astaire, Holly Valance, Phil Silvers, Salvador Dali and Irving Berlin are the one's I care to mention.

 

Maths mablokeys:-

 

Mathematicians born on this day:

1881 : Kármán

1887 : Evans

1902 : Kramer

1912 : Chernikov

1918 : Feynman

1924 : Dynkin

 

 

Mathematicians who died on this day:

 

1610 : Matteo Ricci

1871 : Herschel

1916 : Schwarzschild

1955 : Nikolai Krylov

oh my god . most of the pple here seem to share their bdays with death or birth of some famous mathematicians.. except me

Yes,,,Leonard Nimoy,,,also know as Spock,,,was born on feb 7.

How are you deciding who's famous and who's not, bloodhound? I look through a random bunch of dates and they all seemed to have a good sampling of people so I doubt yours is completely blank. I couldn't find your birthday under your profile to be sure though.

this thread was meant to look at Famous Mathematicians. thats why i gave the link.and put the tread in the maths section. i should have said that in the thread topic.

Hmm. That's not really answering jordan's question though

he was addressing my complaint that i didnt share my b day with birth or death of anyone famous. he probably didn't realise that i was talking about famous mathematicians. so yes i hink i did answer jordan's question

I knew you were talking about famous mathmaticians. I also knew the site you linked to only listed mathematicians. At a random sampling I found most had more than 5 per day so either yours is really exeptional or you are counting all of the ones listed as famous.

The ones pple have listen so far

 

jordan : Bernoulli

5614: Weber, Dirichlet

atinymonkey: Feynman,Schwarzschild

MulderMan:de Moivre

 

I am defining famous: if u hear the name in general studying maths in a level , and undergrad degree. nothing specialised. for example Gauss, Cauchy, Lagrange, Legendre, Euler, Euclid, Argand, De Moivre, Ramanujan, Hardy, Tayor, Mclaurin, Newton, Poisson, Bernoulli, Hilbert, Fermat, Pascal etc.etc

August 30

Mathematicians born on this day:

 

 

1819 : Serret

1856 : Runge

1906 : Taussky-Todd

 

 

Mathematicians who died on this day: 1928 : Wien

Bah they are all mathematicians.