16th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 16th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1514 : Rheticus
1698 : Bouguer
1822 : Galton
1903 : Beniamino Segre
1937 : Manin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1636 : Gellibrand
1892 : Hirst
1977 : Péter
1980 : Copson

Click here for a poster of Francis Galton and here for a poster of Edward Copson

A quotation for today

Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 - 1574)

The planets show again and again all the phenomena which God desired to be seen from the earth.
Quoted in O Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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