3rd February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 3rd February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1893 : Julia
1898 : Urysohn
1905 : Beurling

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1737 : Tommaso Ceva
1862 : Biot
1923 : Guenther
1925 : Heaviside
1929 : Erlang
1943 : Hedrick
1956 : Borel

Click here for a poster of Gaston Julia and here for a poster of Oliver Heaviside and here for a poster of Emile Borel

A quotation for today

Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925)

There is no absolute scale of size in the Universe, for it is boundless towards the great and also boundless towards the small.
Quoted in D'A W Thompson On Growth and Form (Cambridge 1917)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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