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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th May
On this day in 1782, Whit Sunday, William Herschel made his last professional musical appearance at St Margaret's Chapel, Bath. He had been offered a pension of £200 a year by King George III and so no longer needed to work as a musician.
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Born:
- 1681: Mei Juecheng
- 1832: Edmond Bour Ⓟ
- 1862: Gino Loria Ⓟ
- 1865: Flora Philip Ⓟ
- 1876: James Gray
- 1919: Georgii Dmitrievich Suvorov Ⓟ
- 1927: Serge Lang Ⓟ
- 1930: Rudolf Kalman Ⓟ
- 1931: Stanisław Knapowski Ⓟ
- 1962: Richard Taylor Ⓟ
Died:
- 804: Alcuin Ⓟ
- 1824: Francis Maseres Ⓟ
- 1940: Philipp Furtwängler Ⓟ
- 1942: Joseph Larmor Ⓟ
- 1979: Ralph James Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Serge Lang
The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.
