1831 : Maxwell
1871 : Steinitz
1876 : Gosset
1891 : Pierre Humbert
1928 : Nash
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1994 : Britton
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James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
[Maxwell strongly disagreed with these views and was attacking them.]
Scientific Papers 2, 244, October 1871
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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