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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th March
On this day in 1649, Christopher Wren received his BA degree from Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, two years later and lived in the College until 1657. At Oxford Wren carried out many scientific experiments. He worked on anatomy, making drawings of the human brain for Willis's Cerebri anatome and he devised a blood transfusion method which he demonstrated by transfusing blood from one dog to another.
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Born:
- 1602: Jacques de Billy Ⓟ
- 1640: Philippe de la Hire Ⓟ
- 1690: Christian Goldbach
- 1796: Jakob Steiner Ⓟ
- 1839: Joseph-Émile Barbier
- 1870: Agnes Baxter Ⓟ
- 1891: Walter Shewhart Ⓟ
- 1904: Wilhelm Flügge Ⓟ
- 1907: Gheorghe Pic Ⓟ
- 1911: Walter Ledermann Ⓟ
- 1928: Lennart Carleson Ⓟ
Died:
- 1871: Augustus De Morgan Ⓟ
- 1935: Bertram Wilson
- 1964: Norbert Wiener Ⓟ
- 1989: Harold Jeffreys Ⓟ
- 1997: Wilbur Knorr Ⓟ
- 1997: Charles Costley
- 2013: Mary Ellen Rudin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Harold Jeffreys
We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we
want to talk "about" mathematics!
