11th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 11th August

Mathematicians born on this day:

1730 : Bossut
1829 : Ferrers
1842 : D'Ovidio
1889 : Razmadze
1895 : Egon Pearson
1912 : Levinson
1956 : Lions

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1464 : Cusa
1578 : Nunes
1892 : Betti
1939 : Epstein
1948 : Third
1991 : Satoshi Suzuki
1995 : Church
2003 : Armand Borel

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Enrico Betti Alonzo Church

A quotation for today

Alonzo Church (1903 - 1995)

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.

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