MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
15th January
Born:
- 1648: Henry Aldrich *
- 1704: Johann Castillon
- 1717: Matthew Stewart *
- 1814: Ludwig Schläfli *
- 1850: Sofia Kovalevskaya *
- 1876: Robert J T Bell *
- 1883: James Mercer *
- 1918: David Kendall *
- 1918: Sheila Power Tinney *
- 1925: Shanti Swarup Gupta *
Died:
- 1790: John Landen
- 1945: Wilhelm Wirtinger *
- 1950: Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa *
- 1958: Aurel Wintner *
- 1968: Leopold Infeld *
- 1973: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky *
- 1987: Jerzy Słupecki *
- 2000: Carolyn Eisele *
- 2009: Ki Hang Kim *
Quotation of the day
From Sofia Kovalevskaya
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
