Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.
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July 18th
| 1635 | Robert Hooke born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England. Best known for Hooke's Law in physics, this multi-talented scientist and mathematician held the jobs of Curator of Experiments and Lecturer in the Mechanical Arts for the Royal Society, Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, and City of London Surveyor simultaneously.
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| 1768 | Jean Robert Argand born in Geneva, Switzerland. His single original contribution to mathematics was the invention and elaboration of a geometric representation of complex numbers and operations on them. In this he was preceded by Wessel and followed by Gauss.
More information about: Jean Robert Argand Caspar Wessel Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| 1872 | Weierstrass lecture. In a lecture to the Berlin Academy, Karl Weierstrass gave the classic example of a continuous nowhere differential function.
More information about: Karl Weierstrass Weierstrass Function |
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