14th August

Mathematicians who were born or died on 14th August
Mathematicians born on this day:

1530 : Benedetti
1737 : Hutton
1842 : Darboux
1850 : Ball
1865 : Castelnuovo
1866 : Vallée Poussin
1906 : Lukacs

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1886 : Laguerre
1922 : Bryant
1930 : Cajori
1943 : Flora Philip
2007 : Lupas

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Gaston Darboux Charles De la Vallée Poussin Edmond Laguerre

A quotation for today

Florian Cajori (1859 - 1930)

The best review of arithmetic consists in the study of algebra.

The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States


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