2nd June

Mathematicians who were born or died on 2nd June

Mathematicians born on this day:

1884 : Piaggio
1895 : Radó
1916 : Seidenberg
1932 : Honda

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1929 : Schreier
1942 : Forsyth
1943 : Van Vleck
1946 : Peddie

Posters available (Click on a link below)

Otto Schreier

A quotation for today

Andrew Forsyth (1858 - 1942)

I began to understand that pure mathematics was more than a collection of random tools mainly fashioned for use in the Cambridge treatment of natural philosophy.

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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