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Mathematicians born on this day:
1606 : Juan Caramuel |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1691 : Adrien Auzout |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | Franz Neumann | Thomas Clausen |
Lipa Bers (1914 - 1993)
... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words.
In this sense formulas like 
or 
are poems.
Quoted in D Albers, G Alexanderson, C Reid, More Mathematical People
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians.
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