24th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 24th March

Mathematicians born on this day:

1809 : Liouville
1835 : Josef Stefan
1848 : Jules Tannery
1892 : Morse
1948 : Chang

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1956 : Hamill
1956 : Whittaker
1976 : Murnaghan

Click here for a poster of Joseph Liouville and here for a poster of Marston Morse and here for a poster of Edmund Whittaker

A quotation for today

Marston Morse (1892 - 1977)

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Quoted in S Gudder A Mathematical Journey

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