MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
14th January
Born:
- 1819: James Cockle (poster)
- 1887: Hugo Steinhaus (poster)
- 1901: Alfred Tarski (poster)
- 1924: Linards Reiziņš
- 1939: Fatma Moalla (poster)
Died:
- 1679: Jacques de Billy
- 1687: Nicolaus Mercator
- 1742: Edmond Halley (poster)
- 1753: George Berkeley (poster)
- 1814: Charles Bossut (poster)
- 1898: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (poster)
- 1901: Charles Hermite (poster)
- 1905: Ernst Abbe (poster)
- 1912: Arnold Droz-Farny
- 1914: Benjamin Osgood Peirce (poster)
- 1931: William Johnson (poster)
- 1970: William Feller (poster)
- 1978: Kurt Gödel (poster)
- 2000: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Charles Hermite
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and stuty them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.
