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Mathematicians born on this day:
1821 : Hermann von Helmholtz |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1721 : John Keill |
| Herbert Turnbull | Stefan Banach | Heinrich Tietze |
Herbert Turnbull (1885 - 1961)
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little enquiry into its nature and purpose as a deliberate human activity.
Preface to The Great Mathematicians (London 1929)
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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