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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.
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Born:
- 1793: George Green
- 1905: Laurence Chisholm Young Ⓟ
- 1917: Patrick Moran Ⓟ
- 1937: David Hayes Ⓟ
- 1952: Emilio Cafaro Ⓟ
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 Augustin Fresnel
Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.
