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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.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1793: George Green
- 1905: Laurence Chisholm Young Ⓟ
- 1917: Patrick Moran Ⓟ
- 1933: Samuel Gitler Ⓟ
- 1937: David Hayes Ⓟ
- 1952: Emilio Cafaro Ⓟ
- 1955: Gregory Lawler Ⓟ
Died:
- 1800: Lorenzo Mascheroni Ⓟ
- 1827: Augustin Fresnel Ⓟ
- 1865: Benjamin Gompertz Ⓟ
- 1943: John McWhan
- 1953: Richard von Mises Ⓟ
- 1956: John Miller Ⓟ
- 1956: John Wishart Ⓟ
- 1967: Schieffelin Claytor Ⓟ
- 1972: Thomas Lancaster Wren Ⓟ
- 2016: John Carr Ⓟ
- 2017: Maryam Mirzakhani Ⓟ
- 2019: Hoàng Tụy Ⓟ
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).
