22nd September

Mathematicians who were born or died on 22nd September
Mathematicians born on this day:

1765 : Ruffini
1769 : Puissant
1791 : Faraday
1822 : Lonie
1873 : Pompeiu
1901 : Friedrich Karl Schmidt

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1703 : Viviani
1837 : Horner
1970 : Jarnik
1979 : Ehresmann
2000 : Kostrikin
2005 : Samelson

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Michael Faraday

A quotation for today

Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867)

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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