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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th July
On this day in 1609, Thomas Harriot made the earliest telescopic observation in England. He sketched the Moon, which was at that time 5 days old, viewing it through a telescope with a magnification of 6.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2008.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1271: Zhao Youqin Ⓟ
- 1663: Louis Carré
- 1790: Theodore Strong Ⓟ
- 1852: Francis Upton Ⓟ
- 1902: Stanisław Gołąb Ⓟ
- 1903: Kurt Mahler Ⓟ
- 1912: Tadashi Nakayama Ⓟ
- 1930: David Foulis Ⓟ
- 1945: Karl Sigmund Ⓟ
- 1969: Andrei Yuryevich Okounkov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1925: Gottlob Frege Ⓟ
- 1928: Frank Carey Ⓟ
- 1932: Oliver Kellogg Ⓟ
- 1941: Kazimierz Bartel Ⓟ
- 1941: Henri Lebesgue Ⓟ
- 1942: Georg Pick Ⓟ
- 1942: Alfred Tauber Ⓟ
- 1955: Raymond Archibald Ⓟ
- 1977: Oskar Morgenstern Ⓟ
- 1997: Kunihiko Kodaira Ⓟ
- 2000: John Tukey Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Gottlob Frege
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.
