5th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 5th April
Mathematicians born on this day:

1588 : Hobbes
1607 : Fabri
1622 : Viviani
1869 : Chaplygin
1877 : Faber

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1678 : Claude Hardy
1684 : Brouncker
1861 : Joachimsthal
1900 : Bertrand

Click here for a poster of Thomas Hobbes and here for a poster of William Brouncker and here for a poster of Joseph Bertrand

A quotation for today

Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God to bestow on mankind) ...
Leviathan 1651

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