25th January

Mathematicians who were born or died on 25th January
Mathematicians born on this day:

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

A quotation for today

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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