MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
12th January
Born:
- 1853: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro *
- 1894: William Arthur *
- 1899: Badri Nath Prasad
- 1906: Kurt Hirsch *
- 1907: Edwin Maxwell *
- 1914: Emilio Baiada *
- 1915: Herbert Robbins *
- 1946: Jean-Louis Loday *
Died:
- 1665: Pierre Fermat *
- 1849: James Thomson *
- 1909: Hermann Minkowski *
- 1960: Pedro Puig Adam *
- 1996: Bartel van der Waerden *
- 2004: Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya *
- 2018: Jean-Louis Koszul *
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.
