19th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 19th April

Mathematicians born on this day:

1748 : Tinseau
1858 : Gibson
1880 : Slutsky
1883 : Mises
1885 : Tonelli
1901 : Oka
1905 : Ehresmann
1909 : Hugh Alexander

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1567 : Stifel
1739 : Saunderson
1791 : Price
1881 : Peterson
1914 : Charles Peirce
1933 : Hobson
1974 : Dinghas

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Evgeny Slutsky Richard von Mises Karl Peterson

A quotation for today

Charles S Peirce (1839 - 1914)

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.

Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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