Mathematicians Of The Day

14th July



On this day in 1760 the Royal Society agreed to send Nevil Maskelyne to the island of St Helena to observe a transit of Venus which would take place on 6 June 1761.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.

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Quotation of the day

From Richard von Mises
The unlimited extension of the validity of the exact sciences was a characteristic feature of the exaggerated rationalism of the eighteenth century" (in reference to Laplace).
Probability, Statistics, and Truth