14th July

Mathematicians who were born or died on 14th July
Mathematicians born on this day:

1905 : Laurence Young

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1800 : Mascheroni
1827 : Fresnel
1865 : Gompertz
1943 : McWhan
1953 : Mises
1956 : Wishart
1956 : John Miller

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Lorenzo Mascheroni Augustin Fresnel Richard Von Mises

A quotation for today

Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827)

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis.

Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)


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