28th April

Mathematicians who were born or died on 28th April
Mathematicians born on this day:

1765 : Lacroix
1773 : Woodhouse
1831 : Tait
1838 : Hunyadi
1868 : Voronoy
1906 : Gödel
1906 : Richard Rado
1925 : Preston
1937 : David Fowler

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1843 : Wallace
1903 : Gibbs
1975 : Heilbronn
1986 : Bing

Click here for a poster of Kurt Gödel and here for a poster of J Willard Gibbs

A quotation for today

Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978)

I don't believe in natural science.
[Said to physicist John Bahcall.]
Quoted in Ed Regis, Who Got Einstein's Office? 1987

Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians

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