5th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 5th January
Mathematicians born on this day:

1838 : Jordan
1871 : Enriques
1871 : Fano
1884 : Denjoy
1909 : Kleene

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1951 : Ritt
1970 : Born
1987 : Shtokalo

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A quotation for today

Camille Jordan (1838 - 1922)

The proof of the Hilbert Basis Theorem is not mathematics; it is theology.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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