27th March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 27th March
Mathematicians born on this day:

1857 : Pearson
1897 : Hartree
1905 : Kalmár

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1888 : Faà di Bruno
1925 : Carl Neumann
1929 : Shatunovsky
1972 : Escher

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Karl Pearson Maurits Escher László Kalmár

A quotation for today

Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936)

Modern science, as training the mind to an exact and impartial analysis of facts, is an education specially fitted to promote citizenship.

The Grammar of Science (London 1911)

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