1749 : Laplace
1754 : Vega
1795 : Holmboe
1862 : Study
1882 : Emmy Noether
1897 : Synge
1907 : Whitney
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1961 : Mason
1963 : Skolem
2007 : Cohen
Click here for a poster of Pierre-Simon Laplace and here for a poster of Jurij Vega and here for a poster of Emmy Noether
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827)
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
(Allegedly his last words.)
Quoted in A De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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