Template:Selected anniversaries/September 24
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1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1858: "Leipzig University should include me in seal," says Friedrich Nietzsche.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.