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.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2000.
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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 Ⓟ