9th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 9th January

Mathematicians born on this day:

1864 : Steklov
1873 : Blichfeldt
1938 : Ramanujam

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1757 : Fontenelle
1799 : Agnesi
1848 : Caroline Herschel
1973 : Vandiver
1975 : Novikov
1989 : Stone

Click here for a poster of Bernard de Fontenelle and here for a poster of Maria Gaetana Agnesi and here for a poster of Caroline Herschel

A quotation for today

Bernard de Fontenelle (1657 - 1757)

Nothing proves more clearly that the mind seeks truth, and nothing reflects more glory upon it, than the delight it takes, sometimes in spite of itself, in the driest and thorniest researches of algebra.
Histoire du Renouvellement de l'Académie des Sciences

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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