Mathematicians Of The Day

10th July



On this day in 1349, Thomas Bradwardine was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury at Avignon, but died of the plague soon after he returned to London to take up his duties.

A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.

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Quotation of the day

From Roger Cotes
If he had lived we would have known something.
Remark of Issac Newton on the early
death of Roger Cotes.