18th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 18th March
Mathematicians born on this day:

1602 : Billy
1640 : La Hire
1690 : Goldbach
1796 : Steiner
1839 : Barbier
1870 : Baxter
1891 : Shewhart
1911 : Ledermann
1928 : Carleson

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1871 : De Morgan
1964 : Norbert Wiener
1989 : Jeffreys

Click here for a poster of Jakob Steiner and here for a poster of Augustus De Morgan

A quotation for today

Augustus De Morgan (1806 - 1871)

I don't quite hear what you say, but I beg to differ entirely with you.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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