19th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 19th February
Mathematicians born on this day:

1473 : Copernicus
1863 : Thue

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1622 : Savile
1799 : Borda
1897 : Weierstrass
1908 : Hermann Laurent
1938 : Landau
1990 : Neugebauer

Click here for a poster of Nicolaus Copernicus and here for a poster of Karl Weierstrass and here for a poster of Edmund Landau

A quotation for today

Edmund Landau (1877 - 1938)

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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