Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd May
On this day in 1736, an expedition set out from Dunkirk to travel to Lapland to measure the length of a degree along the meridian. It was headed by Maupertuis and included the scientists Clairaut and Camus.
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Born:
- 1588: Étienne Pascal
- 1860: D'Arcy Thompson Ⓟ
- 1866: William McFadden Orr Ⓟ
- 1884: John Raymond Wilton
- 1885: Mauro Picone Ⓟ
- 1901: Édouard Zeckendorf Ⓟ
- 1902: Kazimierz Zarankiewicz Ⓟ
- 1903: Gladys Mackenzie Ⓟ
- 1921: Walter Rudin Ⓟ
- 1928: Jacques-Louis Lions Ⓟ
Died:
- 1519: Leonardo da Vinci Ⓟ
- 1833: William Morgan Ⓟ
- 1967: Robert Carmichael Ⓟ
- 1982: Salomon Bochner Ⓟ
- 2002: William Tutte Ⓟ
- 2004: John Hammersley Ⓟ
- 2010: Donald Greenspan Ⓟ
- 2010: Clive William Kilmister Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Leonardo da Vinci
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty