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Mathematicians born on this day:
1815 : George Boole |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1914 : Heinrich Burkhardt |
| George Boole | Henry Smith | Poul Heegaard |
George Boole (1815 - 1864)
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
Preface to A treatise on differential equations (1859)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians.
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