26th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 26th March

Mathematicians born on this day:

1773 : Bowditch
1848 : Andreev
1859 : Hurwitz
1875 : Max Abraham
1903 : du Val
1908 : Motzkin
1913 : Erdös

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1609 : John Dee
1797 : James Hutton
1933 : Kürschák
1966 : Wheeler

Click here for a poster of Adolf Hurwitz and here for a poster of Paul Erdös

A quotation for today

Paul Erdös (1913 - 1996)

Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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