15th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 15th February
Mathematicians born on this day:

1564 : Galileo
1588 : Bramer
1839 : Adolph Mayer
1839 : Zeuthen
1861 : Whitehead
1882 : Koebe
1915 : Hsiung

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1847 : Dandelin
1849 : Verhulst
1900 : John Walker
1940 : Toeplitz
1974 : Hugh Alexander
1988 : Feynman

Click here for a poster of Galileo Galilei and here for a poster of Alfred Whitehead and here for a poster of Richard Feynman

A quotation for today

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

Epur si muove
And yet it does move.
[Apocryphal words to himself after making his abjuration of heliocentricity.]

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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