15th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 15th March

Mathematicians born on this day:

1855 : Boys
1860 : Weldon
1868 : Chisholm Young
1890 : Delone

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1897 : Sylvester
1900 : Christoffel
1960 : Cech
1992 : Montgomery

Click here for a poster of James Joseph Sylvester and here for a poster of Elwin Christoffel

A quotation for today

James J Sylvester (1814 - 1897)

...there is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being....
Presidential Address to British Association, 1869

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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