March 2005

mathematician  mathematician  mathematician

Can you identify the pictured Mathematicians?

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
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Charles de La Faille 		2
Julius Weingarten 		3
Georg Cantor 		4
Jules Antoine Lissajous 		5
William Oughtred
6
Ettore Bortolotti 		7
John Herschel 		8
George Chrystal 		9
Howard Aiken 		10
Johann Heinrich Rahn 		11
Joseph Bertrand 		12
Simon Newcomb
13
Jules Joseph Drach 		14 PIDay
Albert Einstein
and Waclaw Sierpinski 		15
Grace Chisholm Young 		16
Caroline Herschel 		17
Ernest Esclangon 		18
Jakob Steiner 		19
Jacob Wolfowitz
20
Philipp Frank 		21
Jean Joseph Fourier 		22
Irving Kaplansky 		23
Emmy Noether 		24
Harold Marston Morse 		25
Christopher Clavius 		26
Paul Erdös
27
Karl Pearson 		28
Israel Nathan Herstein 		29
Wilhelm Ackermann 		30
Alfréd Rényi 		31
René Descartes 		   

A quotation for March:

Alfréd Rényi (1921 - 1970)

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Quoted in P Turán, "The Work of Alfréd Rényi", Matematikai Lapok 21 (1970) 199 - 210.

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