2nd October

Mathematicians who were born or died on 2nd October

Mathematicians born on this day:

1568 : Ghetaldi
1791 : Petit
1825 : John Walker
1875 : Arthur Conway
1908 : Erdélyi
1926 : Michio Suzuki

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1853 : Arago
1929 : Razmadze
1962 : Bukreev
1999 : Kato
2006 : Halmos
2009 : Wylie

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Arthur Erdélyi François Arago

A quotation for today

Francois Arago (1786 - 1853)

Connaître, decouvrir, communiquer -- telle est la destinée d'un savant.
To get to know, to discover, to publish -- this is the destiny of scientist.

Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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