Mathematicians Of The Day

6th December



On this day in 1733, James Stirling read a paper to the Royal Society entitled Twelve propositions concerning the figure of the Earth. He supported Newton's view that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, against the rival Cassinian view.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 2019.

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Quotation of the day

From Pierre Boutroux
Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.