13th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 13th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1805 : Dirichlet
1900 : Plessner
1906 : Wright

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1787 : Boscovich
1874 : Taurinus
1926 : Edgeworth
1947 : Hecke
1956 : Lukasiewicz

Click here for a poster of Lejeune Dirichlet and here for a poster of Ruggero Boscovich and here for a poster of Francis Edgeworth

A quotation for today

Ruggero Boscovich (1711 - 1787)

Homo hominem arreptum a Tellure, et ubicumque exigua impulsum vi vel une etiam oris flatu impetitum, ab hominum omnium commercio in infinitum expelleret, nunquam per totam aeternitatem rediturum.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
Theoria

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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