MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
7th January
Born:
- 1859: Georges Humbert *
- 1871: Émile Borel *
- 1904: Gordon Whyburn *
- 1907: Raymond Paley *
- 1937: Evgenii Yakovlevich Khruslov *
Died:
- 1893: Josef Stefan *
- 1935: Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky *
- 1955: Edward Kasner *
- 1974: Charles Coulson *
- 1974: Philip Stein *
- 1989: Frank Adams *
- 1998: Richard Hamming *
- 2010: Carlo Cercignani *
- 2012: Herbert Wilf *
Quotation of the day
From Émile Borel
Probabilities must be regarded as analogous to the measurement of physical magnitudes; that is to say, they can never be known exactly, but only within certain approximation.
