12th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 12th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1856 : Droz-Farny
1870 : Carslaw
1908 : Herbrand
1914 : Hanna Neumann
1918 : Schwinger
1921 : Antonelli
1929 : Kostrikin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1916 : Dedekind
1958 : Hartree
1960 : Anderson
1962 : Pérès
1977 : Cunningham
1980 : Hille

Click here for a poster of Hanna Neumann and here for a poster of Richard Dedekind

A quotation for today

Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916)

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential calculus and felt more keenly than ever before the lack of a really scientific foundation for arithmetic.
Opening of the paper in which Dedekind cuts were introduced.

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