1796 : Quetelet
1817 : Borchardt
1849 : Sonin
1862 : Gentry
1903 : Ramsey
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1901 : FitzGerald
1975 : Perron
1984 : Newman
Click here for a poster of Adolphe Quetelet
Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930)
Suppose a contradiction were to be found in the axioms of set theory. Do you seriously believe that a bridge would fall down?
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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