16th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 16th August
Mathematicians born on this day:

1744 : Mechain
1773 : Francoeur
1821 : Cayley
1837 : Tilly
1842 : Rosanes
1852 : Graf
1888 : Rey Pastor
1905 : Rejewski
1907 : Kurepa

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1705 : Jacob Bernoulli
1836 : Parseval
1981 : Vagner
1995 : Benjamin

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Arthur Cayley Jacob Bernoulli

A quotation for today

Jacob Bernoulli (1654 - 1705)

I recognize the lion by his paw.
[After reading an anonymous solution to a problem that he realized was Newton's solution.]

Quoted in G. Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill, 1992

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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