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Mathematicians born on this day:
1527 : Dee |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1762 : Bradley |
| John Dee | Johann (III) Bernoulli | R Buckminster Fuller |
John Dee (1527 - 1608)
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences. ... Many ... arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical, unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.
The Mathematical Preface
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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