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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 Ⓟ
- 1950: Paul Seymour Ⓟ
- 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
What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?
