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Mathematicians born on this day:
1584 : Vernier | Mathematicians who died on this day: |
| Blaise Pascal | Jean Baptiste Delambre | Georg Klügel |
| Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty | Mathematician of the week |
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.
Pensees (1670)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Day_files/Day819.html
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