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Littlewood, J. E. (1885-1977)

It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possibly more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)

A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen and Co., 1953.

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1672	Newton presented his telescope to the Royal Society of London. At the same meeting he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). More information about: Isaac Newton
1775	Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) presented a memoir before the Academie des Sciences in which he made use of two planes of projection in his descriptive geometry. Descriptive geometry deals with the accurate two dimensional rendering of three dimensional solids. More information about: Gaspard Monge
1787	Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel discovered the first two moon of Uranus, Titania and Oberon. More information about: Herschel Uranus

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