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Mathematicians Of The Day
2nd June
On this day in 1686, the publication of Newton's Principia was arranged in London at the Royal Society. The minutes of the meeting record that the astronomer Edmund Halley would "undertake the business of looking after it and printing it at his own charge."
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Born:
- 1867: John Dougall Ⓟ
- 1884: H T H Piaggio
- 1895: Tibor Radó Ⓟ
- 1916: Abraham Seidenberg Ⓟ
- 1932: Taira Honda Ⓟ
Died:
- 1929: Otto Schreier Ⓟ
- 1942: Andrew Forsyth Ⓟ
- 1943: Edward Van Vleck Ⓟ
- 1946: William Peddie Ⓟ
- 2000: Gerald Whitrow Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Andrew Forsyth
I began to understand that pure mathematics was more than a collection of random tools mainly fashioned for use in the Cambridge treatment of natural philosophy.
