30th December

Mathematicians who were born or died on 30th December

Mathematicians born on this day:

1897 : Saks

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1691 : Boyle
1932 : Eliakim Moore
1947 : Whitehead
1978 : Naimark
1982 : Hall

Click here for a poster of Alfred Whitehead and here for a poster of Philip Hall

A quotation for today

Alfred Whitehead (1861 - 1947)

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
The Aims of Education.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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