18th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 18th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1201 : Nasir al_Tusi
1404 : Alberti
1844 : Lueroth
1871 : Yule

Mathematicians who died on this day:

901 : Thabit
1851 : Jacobi
1899 : Lie
1995 : McAfee

Click here for a poster of Leone Alberti and here for a poster of Carl Jacobi and here for a poster of Sophus Lie

A quotation for today

Karl Jacobi (1804 - 1851)

It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime.
[Commenting on the return of Descartes' remains to France]
Quoted in H Eves Mathematical Circles Adieu (Boston 1977)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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