Mathematicians born on this day:
1471 : Albrecht Dürer |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1848 : Pierre Wantzel |
Albrecht Dürer | Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis | Édouard Goursat |
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)
Welcher aber ... durch die Geometria sein Ding beweist und die gründliche Wahrheit anzeigt, dem soll alle Welt glauben. Denn da ist man gefangen.
Whoever ... proves his point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured
Von menschlicher Proportion
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