29th December

Mathematicians who were born or died on 29th December
Mathematicians born on this day:

1256 : Al-Banna
1751 : Bonnycastle
1856 : Stieltjes
1861 : Hensel
1911 : Klaus Fuchs
1923 : Choquet-Bruhat

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1720 : Kirch
1731 : Taylor
1737 : Saurin
1891 : Kronecker
1939 : Kelly Miller
1941 : Levi-Civita
1941 : William James Macdonald

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Kurt Hensel Brook Taylor Leopold Kronecker

A quotation for today

Leopold Kronecker (1823 - 1891)

Die ganze Zahl schuf der liebe Gott, alles Übrige ist Menschenwerk.
God made the integers, all else is the work of man.

Quoted in Cajori, History of Mathematics (London 1919)

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