18th May

Mathematicians who were born or died on 18th May

Mathematicians born on this day:

1048 : Omar Khayyam
1711 : Boscovich
1850 : Heaviside
1872 : Russell
1914 : Stefan Schwarz
1937 : Mochizuki

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1924 : Corrado Segre
1954 : Brodetsky
1971 : Kurosh

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Ruggero Boscovich Oliver Heaviside Bertrand Russell

A quotation for today

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Principles of Mathematics. 1903

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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