Mathematicians Of The Day

15th November



Today is the feast-day of St Albertus Magnus. He was canonised in 1931 and in 1941 was made patron of natural scientists by Pope Pius XII.

The postage stamp of one of today's mathematicians at THIS LINK was issued in 1986.

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Quotation of the day

From Johannes Kepler
I also ask you, my friends, not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and to allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
Letter to Vincenzo Bianchi, 17 February 1619. KGW 17, 327.