A recent math holiday that I remembered after it had passed is National Mathematics Day in India -- held on December 22 and celebrating the birth anniversary of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (1870-1920). (An interesting math-item from India is the claim that the first recorded use of zero occurred there.)
Ramanujan is celebrated in a poem by Jonathan Holden. Its opening lines:
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| Holden's complete poem is found here in this posting from 2/19/2011. |
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