19th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 19th January

Mathematicians born on this day:

1833 : Clebsch
1851 : Czuber
1865 : Macdonald
1879 : Fubini
1908 : Kurosh
1911 : Garrett Birkhoff
1912 : Kantorovich

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1930 : Ramsey
1954 : Kaluza
1982 : Magiros

Click here for a poster of Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh

A quotation for today

Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930)

Suppose a contradiction were to be found in the axioms of set theory. Do you seriously believe that a bridge would fall down?
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

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