1st January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 1st January

Mathematicians born on this day:

1803 : Libri
1878 : Erlang
1894 : Bose
1905 : Mazur
1912 : Gnedenko
1923 : Gorenstein

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1748 : Johann Bernoulli
1787 : Cunha
1796 : Vandermonde
1862 : Ostrogradski
1992 : Hopper
1995 : Wigner

Click here for a poster of Johann Bernoulli and here for a poster of Grace Hopper

A quotation for today

Johann Bernoulli (1667 - 1748)

We define the art of conjecture, or stochastic art, as the art of evaluating as exactly as possible the probabilities of things, so that in our judgements and actions we can always base ourselves on what has been found to be the best, the most appropriate, the most certain, the best advised: this is the only object of the wisdom of the philosopher and the prudence of the statesman.
Ars Conjectandi

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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