Mathematicians who were born or died on 22nd December

Mathematicians born on this day:

1765 : Johann Friedrich Pfaff
1819 : Pierre Bonnet
1824 : Francesco Brioschi
1859 : Otto Hölder
1863 : Domenico Montesano
1869 : Dimitri Fedorovich Egorov
1877 : Tommaso Boggio
1887 : Srinivasa Ramanujan
1897 : Vojtěch Jarník
1898 : Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
1906 : Boris Yakovlevich Levin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1640 : Jean Beaugrand
1660 : Andrea Tacquet
1693 : Elisabetha Koopman
1867 : Jean-Victor Poncelet
1885 : August Yulevich Davidov
1928 : Henry Fine
1994 : John Todd
2018 : Jean Bourgain

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Otto Hölder Srinivasa Ramanujan Jean-Victor Poncelet

A quotation for today

RamanujanSrinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920)

An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.

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