Mathematicians Of The Day

22nd July



On this day in 1680, Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus was elected to the Paris Académie des Sciences.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1987.

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Quotation of the day

From Gaspard de Prony
These tables will not serve in the usual cases, but only in extraordinary cases.
Delambre on de Prony's tables