3rd March

Mathematicians who were born or died on 3rd March
Mathematicians born on this day:

1838 : Hill
1845 : Cantor
1882 : Bartel
1898 : Artin
1901 : Schreier
1912 : Guinand
1916 : Halmos
1916 : Halmos
1941 : Gerrit de Bruin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1703 : Hooke
1879 : Clifford
1988 : Sewall Green Wright
1991 : Penney

Click here for a poster of Georg Cantor and here for a poster of Emil Artin and here for a poster of Otto Schreier

A quotation for today

Paul Halmos (1916 - )

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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