On this day in 1822 Jean-Francoise Champollion announced his major breakthrough in deciphering the Rosetta stone in a paper to the Academy of Inscriptions and in the following month he published a complete list of signs of both hieroglyphics and demotics with their Greek equivalents.
A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
1677: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr Ⓟ
1719: Abraham Kästner Ⓟ
1725: Patrick d'Arcy Ⓟ
1843: Gaston Tarry Ⓟ
1855: Paul Appell Ⓟ
1876: Earle Raymond Hedrick Ⓟ
1889: Henry Forder Ⓟ
1892: Mikhail Krawtchouk Ⓟ
1893: Mohammed Reda Madwar Ⓟ
1904: Demetrios Kappos Ⓟ
1919: Jim Wilkinson Ⓟ
Died:
1783: Étienne Bézout Ⓟ
1997: William Edge Ⓟ
2007: Moshe Carmeli Ⓟ
2009: Alice T Schafer Ⓟ
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