23rd January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 23rd January

Mathematicians born on this day:

1719 : Landen
1806 : Minding
1840 : Abbe
1862 : Hilbert
1924 : Lighthill

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1785 : Stewart
1952 : Frenkel

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A quotation for today

David Hilbert (1862 - 1943)

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988)

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