18th June

Mathematicians who were born or died on 18th June
Mathematicians born on this day:

1858 : Forsyth
1872 : Moffat
1884 : Weatherburn
1884 : Nugel
1910 : Bartlett
1913 : Teichmüller
1915 : Schafer

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1883 : Waterston
1978 : Peter Stefan
1980 : Kuratowski

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Charles Weatherburn Oswald Teichmüller Kazimierz Kuratowski

Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty
A quotation for today

Andrew Forsyth (1858 - 1942)

[a quotation by J E Littlewood]
Forsyth was not good at delta and epsilon.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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