Mathematicians born on this day:
1512 : Gerardus Mercator |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1827 : Laplace |
Gerardus Mercator | William Oughtred | Pierre-Simon Laplace |
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
[said about Napier's logarithms:]
... by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer.
Quoted in H Eves In Mathematical Circles (Boston 1969)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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