MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
15th January
Born:
- 1648: Henry Aldrich (poster)
- 1704: Johann Castillon
- 1717: Matthew Stewart (poster)
- 1814: Ludwig Schläfli (poster)
- 1850: Sofia Kovalevskaya (poster)
- 1876: Robert J T Bell (poster)
- 1883: James Mercer (poster)
- 1918: David Kendall (poster)
- 1918: Sheila Power Tinney (poster)
- 1925: Shanti Swarup Gupta
Died:
- 1790: John Landen
- 1945: Wilhelm Wirtinger (poster)
- 1950: Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa
- 1958: Aurel Wintner (poster)
- 1968: Leopold Infeld (poster)
- 1973: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky (poster)
- 1987: Jerzy Słupecki
- 2009: Ki Hang Kim
Quotation of the day
From Sofia Kovalevskaya
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
[Motto on her paper "On the Problem of the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point."]
