Mathematicians Of The Day
26th July
On this day in 1609, Thomas Harriot made the earliest telescopic observation in England. He sketched the Moon, which was at that time 5 days old, viewing it through a telescope with a magnification of 6.
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Born:
- 1271: Zhao Youqin Ⓟ
- 1663: Louis Carré
- 1790: Theodore Strong Ⓟ
- 1852: Francis Upton Ⓟ
- 1902: Stanisław Gołąb Ⓟ
- 1903: Kurt Mahler Ⓟ
- 1912: Tadashi Nakayama Ⓟ
- 1930: David Foulis Ⓟ
- 1945: Karl Sigmund Ⓟ
- 1969: Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1925: Gottlob Frege Ⓟ
- 1928: Frank Carey Ⓟ
- 1932: Oliver Kellogg Ⓟ
- 1941: Kazimierz Bartel Ⓟ
- 1941: Henri Lebesgue Ⓟ
- 1942: Georg Pick Ⓟ
- 1942: Alfred Tauber Ⓟ
- 1955: Raymond Archibald Ⓟ
- 1997: Kunihiko Kodaira Ⓟ
- 2000: John Tukey Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Tukey
If we need a short suggestion of what exploratory data analysis is, I would suggest that
- It is an attitude AND
- A flexibility AND
- Some graph paper (or transparencies, or both).