20th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 20th January
Mathematicians born on this day:

1775 : Ampère
1831 : Routh
1895 : Szego
1904 : Caccioppoli

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1590 : Benedetti
1864 : Plana
1971 : Schouten
2001 : Nash-Williams

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A quotation for today

André-Marie Ampère (1775 - 1836)

The future science of government should be called "la cybernétique" (1843)
Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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