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Mathematicians Of The Day
19th August
On this day in 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, on 19 August 1791 sending him a manuscript of his Almanac.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2010.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1584: Pierre Vernier
- 1646: John Flamsteed Ⓟ
- 1736: Erland Bring Ⓟ
- 1739: Georg Klügel Ⓟ
- 1919: Jaap Seidel Ⓟ
- 1924: Karl Aubert Ⓟ
- 1939: Alan Baker Ⓟ
- 1973: Olga Holtz Ⓟ
Died:
- 1662: Blaise Pascal Ⓟ
- 1822: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre Ⓟ
- 1910: Eugène Rouché Ⓟ
- 1983: Octav Onicescu Ⓟ
- 1990: Leifur Ásgeirsson Ⓟ
- 1990: Ángel Gros Ⓟ
- 2000: David Champernowne Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Blaise Pascal
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
