9th December

Mathematicians who were born or died on 9th December
Mathematicians born on this day:

1667 : Whiston
1839 : Roch
1883 : Luzin
1883 : Nekrasov
1902 : Schwerdtfeger
1906 : Hopper
1907 : Deuring
1916 : Good
1917 : Fomin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1938 : Pierpont
1955 : Weyl
1958 : Jackson

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

William Whiston Grace Hopper Hermann Weyl

A quotation for today

Hermann Weyl (1885 - 1955)

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

The American Mathematical Monthly, November, 1992

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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