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Mathematicians Of The Day
8th June
On this day in 1637, the printing of René Descartes' Discours de la Méthode was completed, including its important appendix on Geometry in which he introduced the Cartesian coordinate system.
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Born:
- 1625: Giovanni Cassini Ⓟ
- 1745: Caspar Wessel
- 1858: Charlotte Angas Scott Ⓟ
- 1860: Alicia Boole Stott Ⓟ
- 1870: Peter Pinkerton Ⓟ
- 1896: Eleanor Pairman Ⓟ
- 1903: Evan James Williams Ⓟ
- 1905: Hubert Linfoot Ⓟ
- 1915: José Luis Massera Ⓟ
- 1923: Gloria Olive Ⓟ
- 1924: Samuel Karlin Ⓟ
- 1925: Guri Ivanovich Marchuk Ⓟ
Died:
- 1882: John Scott Russell Ⓟ
- 1893: Joel E Hendricks Ⓟ
- 1935: Alexander von Brill Ⓟ
- 1943: Mihailo Petrović Ⓟ
- 1948: Giacomo Albanese Ⓟ
- 1966: Paddy Kennedy Ⓟ
- 1988: Roger Lyndon Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Charlotte Angas Scott
But just because geometry is so eminently fitted for the youthful mind it should be at first presented in such form as to be in accord with the general views of laymen, when these are not in direct opposition to the truth.
