11th May

Mathematicians who were born or died on 11th May

Mathematicians born on this day:

1881 : Kármán
1887 : Evans
1902 : Kramer
1912 : Chernikov
1918 : Feynman
1924 : Dynkin
1930 : Dijkstra

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1610 : Matteo Ricci
1871 : Herschel
1916 : Schwarzschild
1923 : Charles Niven
1955 : Nikolai Krylov
1965 : Nassau
1995 : Zippin

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Richard Feynman

A quotation for today

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, (London, 1990)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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