MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
3rd January
Born:
- 1777: Louis Poinsot (poster)
- 1788: Enno Heeren Dirksen
- 1917: Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskii (poster)
- 1921: Jean-Louis Koszul
- 1926: David Spence
Died:
- 1641: Jeremiah Horrocks (poster)
- 1891: John Casey (poster)
- 1892: Heinrich Schröter (poster)
- 1912: Jacob Amsler (poster)
- 1920: Zygmunt Janiszewski (poster)
- 1927: Carl Runge (poster)
- 1960: Georges Darmois (poster)
- 1989: Sergei Sobolev (poster)
- 2011: Anatolii Volodymyrovych Skorokhod
Quotation of the day
From Louis Poinsot
Everyone makes for himself a clear idea of the motion of a point, that is to say, of the motion of a corpuscle which one supposes to be infinitely small, and which one reduces by thought in some way to a mathematical point.
