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