1627 : Boyle
1736 : Lagrange
1812 : Shanks
1843 : Schwarz
1855 : Juel
1855 : Valyi
1870 : Koch
1916 : Atkinson
1924 : Kiefer
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1894 : Weyr
1935 : Loewy
1973 : Ljunggren
1994 : Kleene
2000 : Freitag
Click here for a poster of Robert Boyle and here for a poster of Joseph-Louis Lagrange and here for a poster of Hermann Schwarz
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
If I had not inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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