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Mathematicians born on this day:
1706 : Châtelet |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1851 : Rodrigues |
| Gabrielle du Châtelet | Sophus Lie | William Thomson |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824 - 1907)
When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Day_files/Day1217.html
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