2nd April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 2nd April

Mathematicians born on this day:

1906 : Iyanaga
1934 : Cohen
1934 : Cohen

There are no mathematicians in our archive who died on this day

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A quotation for today

Paul Cohen (1934 - )

The notion of a set is too vague for the continuum hypothesis to have a positive or negative answer.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

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