15th December

Mathematicians who were born or died on 15th December
Mathematicians born on this day:

1731 : Maseres
1732 : Karsten
1802 : Bolyai
1823 : Davidov
1827 : Roberts
1847 : Floquet
1897 : Mathisson
1912 : Goodstein
1912 : Grosswald
1923 : Dyson
1929 : Prokhorov

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1838 : Léger
1849 : Francoeur
1921 : Königsberger
1940 : Alfred Young
1958 : Pauli
1970 : Motzkin
1971 : Paul Lévy
2000 : Birnbaum

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

János Bolyai Wolfgang Pauli

A quotation for today

Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958)

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

Previous Day Today Next Day Whole year
Main Index Biographies Index
Birth and death statistics Quotations Posters
History Topics index Famous Curves index
Time lines Chronology Birthplace Maps
Search Form Mathematical Societies
JOC/EFR January 2013

The URL of this page is:

 School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews, Scotland
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Day_files/Day1215.html