Mathematicians Of The Day

2nd October



On this day in 1667, Isaac Newton became a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to the plague.

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Quotation of the day

From Paul Halmos
Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.