6th May

Mathematicians who were born or died on 6th May
Mathematicians born on this day:

1769 : Hachette
1792 : Martin Ohm
1865 : Third
1872 : Sitter
1906 : Weil
1942 : Aubin

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1856 : William Hamilton
1916 : Scholtz
1928 : Allardice
1951 : Cartan
1963 : Kármán
1983 : Luke
2009 : Hsiung

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Elie Cartan Jean Hachette André Weil

A quotation for today

Theodore Von Kármán (1881 - 1963)

The scientist describes what is; the engineer creates what never was.

Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)


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