2nd January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 2nd January


Mathematicians born on this day:

1822 : Clausius
1843 : Stuart
1896 : Pars
1905 : Shnirelman
1938 : Samoilenko

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1892 : Airy
1992 : Kuttner

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A quotation for today

Rudolf Clausius (1822 - 1888)

Die Energie der Welt ist konstant. Die Entroopie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu.
The energy of the world is constant. Its entropy tends to a maximum.
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)



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