24th February

Mathematicians who were born or died on 24th February

Mathematicians born on this day:

1878 : Felix Bernstein
1909 : Black
1920 : Pillai
1946 : Margulis

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1728 : Reyneau
1812 : Malus
1844 : Reynaud
1856 : Lobachevsky
1871 : Weisbach
1933 : Bertini

Click here for a poster of Felix Bernstein and here for a poster of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii

A quotation for today

Nikolay Lobachevsky (1792 - 1856)

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988).

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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