5th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 5th February


Mathematicians born on this day:

1797 : Duhamel
1907 : Magnus

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1881 : Carlyle
1977 : Oskar Klein
1997 : Almgren

Click here for a poster of Jean-Marie Duhamel


A quotation for today

Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
Sartor Resartus III.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians


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