MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
9th January
Born:
- 1795: Charles Whish
- 1864: Vladimir A Steklov (poster)
- 1873: Hans Blichfeldt (poster)
- 1889: Percy Daniell (poster)
- 1915: Mollie Orshansky (poster)
- 1923: Vasilii Sergeevich Vladimirov (poster)
- 1930: Jacob T Schwartz (poster)
- 1938: Chidambaram Padmanabhan Ramanujam (poster)
- 1974: Talitha Washington (poster)
Died:
- 1586: Paul Wittich
- 1757: Bernard de Fontenelle (poster)
- 1799: Maria Agnesi (poster)
- 1848: Caroline Herschel (poster)
- 1939: Fabian Franklin (poster)
- 1962: Lajos Dávid (poster)
- 1973: Harry Vandiver (poster)
- 1975: Petr Sergeevich Novikov (poster)
- 1989: Marshall Stone (poster)
- 2005: Rimhak Ree (poster)
- 2012: Herbert Pahlings (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Bernard de Fontenelle
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
