MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
14th January
Born:
- 1819: James Cockle (poster)
- 1887: Hugo Steinhaus (poster)
- 1901: Alfred Tarski (poster)
- 1924: Linards Reizins
- 1939: Fatma Moalla
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
Quotation of the day
From George Berkeley
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
