Mathematicians who were born or died on 18th September
| Mathematicians born on this day:
1752 : Legendre 1819 : Foucault 1863 : Metzler | Mathematicians who died on this day:
1783 : Euler 1891 : Ferrel 1896 : Fizeau 1977 : Bernays |
| Adrien-Marie Legendre | Leonhard Euler | William Ferrel |
A quotation for today Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783)
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Quoted in G Simmons Calculus Gems (New York 1992)
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