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Mathematicians born on this day:
1831 : Mannheim |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1790 : Johann(II) Bernoulli |
| Wilhelm Lexis | Henri Poincaré | James Lighthill |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912)
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
La Science et l'hypothèse.
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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JOC/EFR May 2017
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School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland |
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Day_files/Day717.html
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