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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.
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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
