Mathematicians Of The Day
17th January
Born:
- 1647: Elisabetha Koopman *
- 1706: Benjamin Franklin *
- 1847: Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii *
- 1858: Gabriel Koenigs *
- 1868: Louis Couturat *
- 1889: Ralph Fowler *
- 1900: Edward Collingwood *
- 1905: D R Kaprekar *
- 1911: Dov Jarden *
- 1913: Shaun Wylie *
- 1918: Ivan Vidav *
- 1923: Blagoj Popov *
- 1930: James Ezeilo *
Died:
- 1618: Luca Valerio
- 1775: Vincenzo Riccati *
- 1881: Humphrey Lloyd *
- 1911: Francis Galton *
- 1954: Leonard Dickson *
Quotation of the day
From Leonard Dickson
Thank God that number theory is unsullied by any application.