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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
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage's Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
