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Mathematicians born on this day:
1759 : Jacob(II) Bernoulli |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1817 : West |
| Jacques Hadamard | Frank Morley | Friedrich Hirzebruch |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
Jacques Hadamard (1865 - 1963)
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Day_files/Day1017.html
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