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Mathematicians born on this day:
1545 : Guidobaldo del Monte |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1757 : Louis Castel |
| Guidobaldo del Monte | Emanuel Lasker | Vincenzo Riccati |
Emanuel Lasker (1868 - 1941)
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
A Manual of Chess (London 1932)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
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