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Mathematicians born on this day:
1816 : Frenet |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1880 : Morin |
| G H Hardy | Eric Temple Bell | Poul Heegaard |
G H Hardy (1877 - 1947)
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
A Mathematician's Apology (London 1941)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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JOC/EFR October 2010
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