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Mathematicians born on this day:
1857 : Karl Pearson |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1888 : Francesco Faà di Bruno |
| Karl Pearson | Maurits Escher | László Kalmár |
Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936)
Modern science, as training the mind to an exact and impartial analysis of facts, is an education specially fitted to promote citizenship.
The Grammar of Science (London 1911)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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