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Mathematicians Of The Day

17th June

Born:

• 1714: César-François Cassini de Thury (poster)
• 1898: Maurits Escher (poster)
• 1903: William Hodge (poster)
• 1906: Tom Cowling (poster)
• 1906: Samuel Wilks (poster)
• 1928: Iain Adamson (poster)
• 1939: Carlo Cercignani (poster)

Died:

• 1918: Johann Heinrich Graf (poster)
• 1956: David Picken
• 1994: Frank Yates (poster)
• 2012: Nathan Divinsky

Quotation of the day

From Maurits Escher

The laws of mathematics are not merely human inventions or creations. They simply 'are'; they exist quite independently of the human intellect. The most that any(one) ... can do is to find that they are there and to take cognizance of them.