30th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 30th April
Mathematicians born on this day:

1773 : Burckhardt
1777 : Gauss
1861 : John Clark
1875 : Archibald Milne
1916 : Shannon

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1977 : Fox
1989 : Kothe
2011 : Quillen

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Carl Friedrich Gauss Claude E Shannon

A quotation for today

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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