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Mathematicians born on this day:
1597 : La Faille |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1862 : Barlow |
| Isaac Todhunter | Robert Carmichael | Jan-Karel della Faille |
Isaac Todhunter (1820 - 1884)
[Maxwell asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction]
No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.
Quoted in J G Crowther, The Statesmen of Science (London 1965)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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JOC/EFR October 2010
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