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Mathematicians Of The Day
15th February
On this day in 1675, Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke:-
What Descartes did was a good step ... If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders of Giants.See THIS LINK.
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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 Ⓟ
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 Richard Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
