8th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 8th April

Mathematicians born on this day:

1732 : Rittenhouse
1903 : Stone
1903 : Wintner
1929 : Bruhat

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1461 : Peurbach
1919 : Eötvös

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A quotation for today

Marshall Stone (1903 - 1989)

For Bourbaki, Poincaré was the devil incarnate. For students of chaos and fractals, Poincaré is of course God on Earth.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

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