Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Quoted in H. Weyl, "Mathematics and the Laws of Nature" in I. Gordon and S. Sorkin (eds.), The Armchair Science Reader, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
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November 17th
| 1597 | Henry Gellibrand born in London, England. He completed and published his friend Henry Briggs' Trigonometria Britannica, trigonometric tables with instruction in their application, in 1633.
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| 1717 | While making his rounds, a gendarme found an infant on the steps of the Church of Saint Jean-le-Rond in Paris. The child was christened Jean-le-Rond. Later, he added the surname d'Alembert.
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| 1790 | August Ferdinand Moebius born in Saxony, Germany. He discovered his famous Moebius strip in September, 1858. Johann Benedict Listing had discovered the same surface two months earlier.
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| 1879 | John Wesley Young born in Columbus, Ohio. His 1923 report, "The Reorganization of Mathematics in Secondary Education," profoundly influenced educational thought and practice.
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