12th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 12th August
Mathematicians born on this day:

1769 : Bartels
1862 : Jules Richard
1887 : Schrödinger
1930 : Tits

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1901 : Jonquières
1928 : Chree
1935 : Schottky
1945 : Scheffers
1989 : Frantisek Wolf

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Jules Richard Erwin Schrödinger

A quotation for today

Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961)

Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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