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Mathematicians Of The Day
22nd July
On this day in 1680, Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus was elected to the Paris Académie des Sciences.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.
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Born:
- 1755: Gaspard de Prony Ⓟ
- 1784: Wilhelm Bessel Ⓟ
- 1795: Gabriel Lamé Ⓟ
- 1861: Ernst Fiedler Ⓟ
- 1872: Alexander Durie Russell Ⓟ
- 1880: Alfred Rosenblatt Ⓟ
- 1882: Konrad Knopp Ⓟ
- 1887: Gustav Hertz Ⓟ
- 1902: Reinhold Baer Ⓟ
- 1904: Donald Eperson Ⓟ
- 1907: Edgar Raymond Lorch Ⓟ
- 1926: John Aitchison Ⓟ
- 1930: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Ⓟ
- 1935: John Stallings Ⓟ
- 1948: Chandra Kintala Ⓟ
Died:
- 1575: Francesco Maurolico Ⓟ
- 1826: Giuseppe Piazzi Ⓟ
- 1943: William Osgood Ⓟ
- 1950: Vyacheslaw Vassilievich Stepanov Ⓟ
- 1959: David van Dantzig Ⓟ
- 1995: Otakar Boruvka Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gaspard de Prony
[Lagrange's foundations of the calculus] is assuredly a very interesting part of what one might call purely philosophical study; but when it is a case of making transcendental analysis an instrument of exploration for questions presented by astronomy, marine, geodesy, and the different branches of the science of the engineer, the consideration of the infinitely small leads to the aim in a manner [which is] more felicitous, more prompt, and more immediately adapted to the nature of the questions, and this is why the Leibnizian method has, in general, prevailed in French schools.
