4th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 4th January
Mathematicians born on this day:

(Because of the difference between the Gregorian and the Julian calendars, Christmas Day 1642 was celebrated on Newton's birthday in England.)

1643 : Newton
1848 : Suter

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1752 : Cramer
1826 : Fuss
1950 : Snyder
1958 : Archie Alexander
1961 : Schrödinger

Click here for a poster of Isaac Newton and here for a poster of Erwin Schrödinger

A quotation for today

Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
Letter to Robert Hooke

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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