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Mathematicians Of The Day

30th April

Born:

• 1773: Johann Karl Burckhardt *
• 1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss *
• 1861: John Clark
• 1875: Archibald Milne
• 1905: Serge Mikhalovich Nikolski *
• 1911: Wolfgang Hahn *
• 1916: Claude E Shannon *

Died:

• 1704: Henry Coley *
• 1959: Luigi Brusotti *
• 1977: Charles Fox *
• 1980: Stanisław Gołąb *
• 1989: Gottfried Köthe *
• 2011: Daniel Quillen *
• 2012: Bruce Kellogg *

Quotation of the day

From Carl Friedrich Gauss

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.