4th October

Mathematicians who were born or died on 4th October


Mathematicians born on this day:

1759 : Arbogast
1797 : Savary
1906 : Fasenmyer
1935 : Kumano-Go

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1947 : Planck
1973 : Kober
1974 : Robert Moore

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A quotation for today

Robert L Moore (1882 - 1974)

That student is best taught who is told the least.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians


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