29th July

Mathematicians who were born or died on 29th July

Mathematicians born on this day:

1786 : Nicollet
1858 : Gerbaldi
1912 : Slater

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1839 : de Prony
1962 : Fisher
1996 : Schutzenberger
2004 : Feit

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Ronald Fisher Walter Feit

A quotation for today

Ronald Fisher (1890 - 1962)

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking hm to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya, ca 1938.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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