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Mathematicians born on this day:
1685 : Brook Taylor |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1652 : Florimond de Beaune |
| Brook Taylor | Paul Turán | Beppo Levi |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
Brook Taylor (1685 - 1731)
The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones seIf first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. For it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Day_files/Day818.html
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