1540 : van Ceulen
1701 : La Condamine
1855 : Rohn
1888 : Mordell
1892 : Bonferroni
1911 : Schatten
1922 : Kalicki
1924 : Klingenberg
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1864 : Clapeyron
1889 : Barbier
1946 : Sintsov
1954 : Esclangon
1985 : Pars
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Louis Mordell (1888 - 1972)
In 1912 I attended an international mathematical congress held in Cambridge. I went into the buffet room where all the distinguished mathematicians were gathered and I thought to myself, "What an odd looking lot they are."
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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