6th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 6th April

There are no mathematicians in our archive born on this day

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1528 : Dürer
1829 : Abel
1993 : Burkill

Click here for a poster of Albrecht Dürer and here for a poster of Niels Abel

A quotation for today

Niels Abel (1802 - 1829)

With the exception of the geometric series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series whose sum has been determined rigorously.
Quoted in E Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: a Cultural History of the Infinite

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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