Mathematicians Of The Day
17th October
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Born:
- 1759: Jacob (II) Bernoulli Ⓟ
- 1808: Philip Kelland Ⓟ
- 1870: David J Tweedie
- 1888: Paul Bernays Ⓟ
- 1927: Friedrich Hirzebruch Ⓟ
Died:
- 1817: John West
- 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff Ⓟ
- 1923: August Adler
- 1937: Frank Morley Ⓟ
- 1952: Ernest Vessiot Ⓟ
- 1963: Jacques Hadamard Ⓟ
- 1976: Edward Marczewski Ⓟ
- 1978: Gertrude Cox Ⓟ
- 1989: Mark Krein Ⓟ
- 2008: Andrew Gleason Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Jacques Hadamard
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.