17th September

Mathematicians who were born or died on 17th September

Mathematicians born on this day:

1743 : Condorcet
1826 : Riemann
1903 : Steele
1905 : Freudenthal
1910 : Marshall Hall
1918 : Gilbarg
1937 : Flato

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1877 : Talbot
1891 : Petzval
1999 : Carlitz

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Bernhard Riemann

A quotation for today

Marshall Hall Jr (1910 - 1990)

[from a foonote in Theory of Groups ]
We have used the term subinvariant subgroup as the term subnormal subgroup may be unnecessarily distracting.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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