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Mathematicians Of The Day
27th November
On this day in 1689, Edmond Halley proposed the 21 year-old Joseph Raphson as a member of the Royal Society. He was elected three days later.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2022.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2022.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1867: Arthur Lee Dixon Ⓟ
- 1909: Anatoly Malcev Ⓟ
- 1914: Edward Begle Ⓟ
- 1923: J Ernest Wilkins Ⓟ
- 1964: Artūras Dubickas Ⓟ
Died:
- 1754: Abraham de Moivre Ⓟ
- 1849: Ruan Yuan Ⓟ
- 1852: Ada Lovelace Ⓟ
- 1904: Paul Tannery Ⓟ
- 1953: George Samuel Eastwood Ⓟ
- 1990: Ferenc Radó Ⓟ
- 1998: Moshé Flato Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Ada Lovelace
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis, but it has no power of anticipating any analytical revelations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with.
