MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
12th January
Born:
- 1853: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (poster)
- 1894: William Arthur (poster)
- 1899: Badri Nath Prasad
- 1906: Kurt Hirsch (poster)
- 1907: Edwin Maxwell (poster)
- 1914: Emilio Baiada (poster)
- 1915: Herbert Robbins (poster)
- 1946: Jean-Louis Loday (poster)
Died:
- 1665: Pierre Fermat (poster)
- 1849: James Thomson (poster)
- 1909: Hermann Minkowski (poster)
- 1960: Pedro Puig Adam
- 1996: Bartel van der Waerden (poster)
- 2004: Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (poster)
- 2018: Jean-Louis Koszul (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Hermann Minkowski
From henceforth, space by itself, and time by itself, have vanished into the merest shadows and only a kind of blend of the two exists in its own right.
