29th October

Mathematicians who were born or died on 29th October
Mathematicians born on this day:

1897 : Pitman
1925 : Klaus Roth
1925 : Divinsky

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1783 : d'Alembert
1914 : Guccia
1921 : Andreev
1931 : Koenigs
1933 : Painlevé
1985 : Lifshitz
1993 : Bers
1993 : Dilworth

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Jean d'Alembert Klaus Roth Paul Painlevé

A quotation for today

Jean d'Alembert (1717 - 1783)

Allez en avant, et la foi vous viendra
Push on and faith will catch up with you.
[advice to those who questioned the calculus]

Quoted in A L Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London 1994)

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