8th November

Mathematicians who were born or died on 8th November
Mathematicians born on this day:

1656 : Halley
1843 : Pasch
1846 : Bertini
1848 : Frege
1854 : Rydberg
1868 : Hausdorff
1904 : Edge
1914 : George Dantzig

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1633 : Xu Guangqi
1719 : Rolle
1858 : Peacock
1952 : Fano
2001 : Frohlich

Click here for a poster of Edmond Halley and here for a poster of Gottlob Frege and here for a poster of Felix Hausdorff

A quotation for today

William Edge (1904 - 1997)

Algebra exists only for the elucidation of geometry.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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