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James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

was born 176 years ago

5 November 1848

Lee Glaisher was an English mathematician and astronomer who wrote over 400 articles on astronomy, special functions, calculation of numerical tables, number theory and the history of mathematics.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Glaisher/