Mathematicians Of The Day

29th September



On this day in 1801, Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae was published. Gauss was only 24 years old at that time and had written it when he was 21.

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Quotation of the day

From Enrico Fermi
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.