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Mathematicians Of The Day
30th November
On this day in 1703, Isaac Newton became president of the Royal Society, an office he held until his death.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2020.
The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2020.
Click on Ⓟ for a poster.
Born:
- 1549: Henry Savile Ⓟ
- 1720: María Andresa Casamayor Ⓟ
- 1852: Andrei Petrovich Kiselev Ⓟ
- 1891: Edward Ince Ⓟ
- 1904: František Wolf Ⓟ
- 1923: Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets Ⓟ
- 1936: Dmitrii Viktorovich Anosov Ⓟ
Died:
- 1647: Bonaventura Cavalieri Ⓟ
- 1836: Pierre-Simon Girard Ⓟ
- 1892: Franc Mocnik Ⓟ
- 1921: Hermann Schwarz Ⓟ
- 1958: Jenő Egerváry Ⓟ
- 1992: Oene Bottema Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bonaventura Cavalieri
Rigour is the affair of philosophy, not of mathematics
