2nd December

Mathematicians who were born or died on 2nd December

Mathematicians born on this day:

1754 : Canard
1831 : du Bois-Reymond
1865 : Nielsen
1914 : Dilworth

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1594 : Gerardus Mercator
1873 : Gräffe
1966 : Brouwer
1982 : Timms
1992 : Ghizzetti

Posters available (Click on a link below)

L E J Brouwer Gerardus Mercator Paul du Bois-Reymond

A quotation for today

L E J Brouwer (1881 - 1966)

The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.

Intuitionism and formalism (Inaugural address, 1912)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

Previous Day	Today	Next Day	Whole year
Main Index		Biographies Index
Birth and death statistics		Quotations	Posters
History Topics index		Famous Curves index
Time lines	Chronology	Birthplace Maps
Search Form		Mathematical Societies

JOC/EFR January 2013 The URL of this page is:	School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Day_files/Day1202.html