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Mathematicians Of The Day
9th September
On this day in 1839, John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph. The image he captured was of William Herschel's 40-foot telescope in Slough.
See THIS LINK.
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Born:
- 1838: Thomas Barker
- 1860: Frank Morley Ⓟ
- 1914: Marjorie Lee Browne Ⓟ
Died:
- 1883: Victor Puiseux Ⓟ
- 1885: Jean-Claude Bouquet Ⓟ
- 1973: Giovanni Ricci Ⓟ
- 2002: José Luis Massera Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Frank Morley
If the angles of any triangle be trisected, the triangle, formed by the meets of pairs of trisectors, each pair being adjacent to the same side, is equilateral.
Morley's Theorem
