6th August

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

1638 : Malebranche
1741 : John Wilson

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1694 : Arnauld
1925 : Ricci-Curbastro
1945 : Koebe
1947 : William Thomson
1998 : Weil
2002 : Dijkstra
2007 : Selberg

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Nicolas Malebranche Antoine Arnauld André Weil

A quotation for today

Antoine Arnauld (1612 - 1694)

Common sense is not really so common.

The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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