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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.
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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 Ⓟ
- 1997: Kunihiko Kodaira Ⓟ
- 2000: John Tukey Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From John Tukey
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
