12th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 12th March

Mathematicians born on this day:

1685 : Berkeley
1824 : Kirchhoff
1835 : Newcomb
1859 : Cesàro
1945 : Patodi

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1834 : Feuerbach
1898 : Balmer
1972 : Mordell

Click here for a poster of George Berkeley and here for a poster of Louis Mordell

A quotation for today

George Berkeley (1685 - 1753)

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?
The Analyst

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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