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Isaac Milner FRS (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and helped him through many trials and was a great supporter of the abolitionists' campaign against the slave trade, steeling Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 Parliamentary debate: If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years.

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  • Isaac Milner (ca)
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  • Isaac Milner (* 11. Januar 1750 in Leeds, England; † 1. April 1820 in Cambridge, England) war ein englischer Mathematiker, Erfinder, Präsident des Queens’ College, Cambridge, sowie ab 1798 Lucasischer Professor für Mathematik an der Cambridge University. Milner war auch Fellow der Royal Society und Dekan von Carlisle. (de)
  • Isaac Milner (1750 – 1820), fue un matemático e inventor inglés, presidente del Queens' College de Cambridge, miembro de la Royal Society y Profesor Lucasiano de Matemáticas.​ Fue clave en la conversión religiosa de William Wilberforce en 1785 y un gran defensor del abolicionismo de la esclavitud. Aseguró a Wilderforce en el debate parlamentario de 1789: Si llevas este punto de vista en tu vida entera, esa vida será mejor gastada que siendo primer ministro durante muchos años ​ Fue también un destacado naturalista y . (es)
  • Isaac Milner (11 janvier 1750 - 1er avril 1820) est un mathématicien et un inventeur britannique. (fr)
  • Isaac Milner FRS foi um matemático e inventor inglês. Foi presidente do e professor lucasiano. (pt)
  • Isaac Milner (1750 – 1820) va ser un matemàtic, químic i religiós anglès conegut per haver estat el setè professor lucassià de la universitat de Cambridge. Després d'ingressar a la universitat de Cambridge com un senzill becari i graduar-se amb honors el 1774, va ser ordenat diaca de l'Església d'Anglaterra i nomenat fellow del Queens' College de Cambridge. A partir de 1782 va ser professor de filosofia natural de la universitat i el 1798 va succeir Edward Waring en la Càtedra Lucasiana de matemàtiques. (ca)
  • Isaac Milner FRS (11 January 1750 – 1 April 1820) was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was instrumental in the 1785 religious conversion of William Wilberforce and helped him through many trials and was a great supporter of the abolitionists' campaign against the slave trade, steeling Wilberforce with his assurance before the 1789 Parliamentary debate: If you carry this point in your whole life, that life will be better spent than in being prime minister of many years. (en)
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  • Cambridge, England (en)
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  • Mabgate, Leeds, England (en)
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