19th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 19th August

Mathematicians born on this day:

1584 : Vernier
1646 : Flamsteed
1736 : Bring
1739 : Klügel
1939 : Alan Baker

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1662 : Pascal
1822 : Delambre
1910 : Rouché

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Blaise Pascal Jean Baptiste Delambre

A quotation for today

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

Pensees (1670)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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