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Mathematicians Of The Day

16th May

Born:

• 1718: Maria Agnesi (poster)
• 1814: Daniel da Silva
• 1821: Pafnuty Chebyshev (poster)
• 1878: Leon Lichtenstein (poster)
• 1909: Werner Romberg (poster)
• 1909: Hidegorô Nakano (poster)
• 1911: Eizens Arins (poster)
• 1911: Jack Todd (poster)
• 1934: Roy Kerr (poster)

Died:

• 1830: Joseph Fourier (poster)
• 1935: Hector Macdonald (poster)
• 1939: Sidney Luxton Loney
• 1943: Roberto Marcolongo
• 1983: Édouard Zeckendorf (poster)
• 1989: Ernst Mohr (poster)
• 2012: Hideo Tanaka

Quotation of the day

From Joseph Fourier

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.