1st June

Mathematicians who were born or died on 1st June
Mathematicians born on this day:

1796 : Sadi Carnot
1815 : Somov
1851 : Elliott
1884 : Helly
1899 : Titchmarsh
1943 : Edmund Robertson

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1867 : von Staudt
1867 : Karl von Staudt
1941 : Hensel
1947 : Enskog
1989 : McShane
1998 : Lesokhin
2006 : Iyanaga

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Eduard Helly Kurt Hensel Sadi Carnot

A quotation for today

Edward Titchmarsh (1899 - 1963)

It can be of no practical use to know that π is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Quoted in N Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims (Raleigh N C 1988)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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