24th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 24th March
Mathematicians born on this day:

1809 : Liouville
1835 : Josef Stefan
1842 : Niven
1848 : Jules Tannery
1892 : Morse
1913 : Ralph Fox
1948 : Chang

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1956 : Hamill
1956 : Whittaker
1976 : Murnaghan

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Joseph Liouville Marston Morse Edmund Whittaker

A quotation for today

Marston Morse (1892 - 1977)

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Quoted in S Gudder A Mathematical Journey


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