10th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 10th February
Mathematicians born on this day:

1747 : Aida
1785 : Navier
1888 : Brodetsky
1894 : Frenkel
1901 : Brauer
1932 : Malone-Mayes

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1891 : Kovalevskaya
1927 : Greenhill
1951 : Miller

Click here for a poster of Sofia Kovalevskaya

A quotation for today

Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891)

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
[Motto on her paper "On the Problem of the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point."]


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