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Mathematicians born on this day:
1562 : Xu Guang-qi |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1656 : Thomas Fincke |
| Oscar Zariski | Henry Dudeney | Xu Guang-qi |
Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930)
A good puzzle should demand the exercise of our best wit and ingenuity, and although a knowledge of mathematics and of logic are often of great service in the solution of these things, yet it sometimes happens that a kind of natural cunning and sagacity is of considerable value.
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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