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Mathematicians born on this day:
1651 : Tschirnhaus |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1813 : Lagrange |
| Ehrenfried Tschirnhaus | Henry Dudeney | Joseph-Louis Lagrange |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813)
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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JOC/EFR October 2010
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