5th October

Mathematicians who were born or died on 5th October
Mathematicians born on this day:

1732 : Maskelyne
1781 : Bolzano
1861 : Heath
1898 : Franklin
1930 : Selten
1932 : Bass

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1565 : Ferrari
1777 : Segner
1906 : Boltzmann
1972 : Lefschetz
1985 : Menger
1985 : Harald Cramér
1986 : Wilkinson
2009 : Gelfand

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Bernard Bolzano Ludwig Boltzmann Solomon Lefschetz

A quotation for today

Solomon Lefschetz (1884 - 1972)

If it's just turning the crank it's algebra, but if it's got an idea in it, it's topology.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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