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Mathematicians Of The Day
1st July
On this day in 1818, William George Horner's method of solving equations was presented to the Royal Society in London. In fact this method was known to Zhu Shijie in China in the thirteenth century.
On this day in 2013 Google released an Alhazen doodle and in 2018 they released a Leibniz doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1950.
On this day in 2013 Google released an Alhazen doodle and in 2018 they released a Leibniz doodle.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1950.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1646: Gottfried Leibniz Ⓟ
- 1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet Ⓟ
- 1840: Robert Ball Ⓟ
- 1906: Jean Dieudonné Ⓟ
- 1913: Jack de Wet Ⓟ
- 1923: Herman Chernoff Ⓟ
Died:
- 1749: William Jones Ⓟ
- 1872: Fernando Pio Rosellini
- 1957: Donald McIntosh Ⓟ
- 1963: Bevan Braithwaite Baker Ⓟ
- 1983: R Buckminster Fuller Ⓟ
- 2015: Czesław Olech Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gottfried Leibniz
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
