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Mathematicians born on this day:
1750 : Caroline Herschel |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1838 : Nathaniel Bowditch |
| Eduard Heine | Gösta Mittag-Leffler | Alfréd Haar |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 - 1838)
I never came across one of Laplace's Thus it plainly appears without feeling sure that I have hours of hard work before me to fill up the chasm and find out and show how in plainly appears.
Quoted in F Cajori, The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians.
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