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Mathematicians Of The Day
18th December
On this day in 1703, John Flamsteed revealed his irritation with the choice of Edmond Halley as successor to Wallis as the Savilian Professor of Geometry. In a letter to Abraham Sharpe he wrote:-
Dr Wallis is dead – Mr Halley expects his place – who now talks, swears and drinks brandy like a sea-captain.
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Born:
- 1917: Roger Lyndon Ⓟ
- 1922: Rimhak Ree Ⓟ
- 1942: Lenore Blum Ⓟ
Died:
- 1559: Cuthbert Tunstall Ⓟ
- 1760: Charles Hayes
- 1799: Étienne Montucla Ⓟ
- 1848: Bernard Bolzano Ⓟ
- 1855: Charles-François Sturm Ⓟ
- 1880: Michel Chasles Ⓟ
- 1970: Pao Lu Hsu Ⓟ
- 1994: Roger Apéry Ⓟ
- 1995: Konrad Zuse Ⓟ
- 1999: Bertha Swirles Jeffreys Ⓟ
- 2006: Mollie Orshansky Ⓟ
- 2007: Samuel Karlin Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bernard Bolzano
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
