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Mathematicians Of The Day
15th February
On this day in 1675, Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke:-
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1964.
What Descartes did was a good step ... If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders of Giants.See THIS LINK.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1964.
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Born:
- 1564: Galileo Galilei Ⓟ
- 1588: Benjamin Bramer Ⓟ
- 1814: William Donkin Ⓟ
- 1829: Joaquim Gomes de Souza Ⓟ
- 1839: Christian Adolph Mayer Ⓟ
- 1839: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Ⓟ
- 1850: Sophie Willock Bryant Ⓟ
- 1851: Spiru Haret Ⓟ
- 1861: Alfred North Whitehead Ⓟ
- 1882: Paul Koebe Ⓟ
- 1915: Chuan-Chih Hsiung Ⓟ
- 1952: Michel Talagrand Ⓟ
Died:
- 1739: Eustachio Manfredi Ⓟ
- 1847: Germinal Dandelin Ⓟ
- 1849: Pierre Verhulst Ⓟ
- 1900: John James Walker Ⓟ
- 1940: Otto Toeplitz Ⓟ
- 1974: Hugh Alexander Ⓟ
- 1974: George Waddel Snedecor Ⓟ
- 1988: Richard Feynman Ⓟ
- 2008: Warwick Sawyer Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Alfred North Whitehead
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
