11th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 11th August

Mathematicians born on this day:

1730 : Charles Bossut
1829 : Norman Ferrers
1842 : Enrico D'Ovidio
1851 : Julius Gysel
1889 : Andrei Razmadze
1895 : Egon Pearson
1912 : Norman Levinson
1956 : Pierre-Louis Lions

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1464 : Nicholas Kryffs
1578 : Pedro Nunes
1880 : Ramchundra
1892 : Enrico Betti
1939 : Paul Epstein
1948 : J A Third
1991 : Satoshi Suzuki
1995 : Alonzo Church
2003 : Armand Borel

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Enrico Betti Alonzo Church Egon Pearson

A quotation for today

Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995)

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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