17th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 17th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1723 : Tobias Mayer
1890 : Fisher
1891 : Fraenkel
1896 : Remez
1905 : Péter

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1874 : Quetelet
1947 : Bortolotti
1964 : Tietze

Click here for a poster of Tobias Mayer and here for a poster of Adolphe Quetelet

A quotation for today

Adolphe Quetelet (1796 - 1874)

The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
Quoted in E Mailly, Eulogy on Quetelet 1874

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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