1st April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 1st April

Mathematicians born on this day:

1640 : Mohr
1776 : Germain
1783 : Kulik

1835 : Moriarty

1895 : Aitken
1916 : Edmonds
1947 : Connes

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1863 : Steiner
1968 : Lev Landau
1998 : Warner

Click here for a poster of Marie-Sophie Germain and here for a poster of Jakob Steiner

A quotation for today

Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831)

In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.
Letter to Gauss (1807)

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