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Mathematicians Of The Day
15th October
On this day in 1698, King William III commissioned Edmund Halley as Royal Naval Captain of the HMS Paramour and provided him with a complete set of instructions:
Whereas his Majesty has been pleased to lend his pink the 'Paramour' for your proceeding with her on an Expedition, to improve the knowledge of the Longitude and variations of the Compass, which ship is now completely manned, stored and victualled at his Majesty's charge for the said Expedition ...
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Born:
- 1608: Evangelista Torricelli Ⓟ
- 1735: Jesse Ramsden Ⓟ
- 1776: Peter Barlow Ⓟ
- 1797: Pierre-Joseph-Étienne Finck
- 1837: Leo Königsberger Ⓟ
- 1846: Platon Sergeevich Poretsky Ⓟ
- 1861: Heinrich Burkhardt Ⓟ
- 1875: Andre-Louis Cholesky Ⓟ
- 1890: Jakob Nielsen Ⓟ
- 1909: Bernhard Neumann Ⓟ
- 1927: Hans Wussing Ⓟ
- 1931: Eléna Kreindler
Died:
- 1100: al-Zarqali Ⓟ
- 1914: Mildred Sanderson Ⓟ
- 1959: Lipót Fejér Ⓟ
- 1965: Abraham Fraenkel Ⓟ
- 1980: Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrent'ev Ⓟ
- 1990: Wilhelm Magnus Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Lipót Fejér
What he says is a topological map of the truth.
