Isaac Milner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isaac Milner

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1750

Place of Birth: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1820

Profession: mathematician, chemist, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Isaac Milner (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. He was also a natural philosopher and the Dean of Carlisle.