11th July

Mathematicians who were born or died on 11th July

Mathematicians born on this day:

1732 : Lalande
1857 : Larmor
1888 : Tamarkin
1890 : Albanese
1904 : Grunsky
1908 : Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford
1922 : Cassels

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1382 : Oresme
1733 : Hermann
1807 : Atwood
1909 : Newcomb
1950 : Arthur Conway
1995 : Alexiewicz

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Nicole Oresme Joseph Larmor

A quotation for today

Simon Newcomb (1835 - 1909)

Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

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