MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
18th January
Born:
- 1853: Fabian Franklin (poster)
- 1856: Luigi Bianchi (poster)
- 1880: Paul Ehrenfest (poster)
- 1901: Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky (poster)
- 1908: Jacob Bronowski (poster)
- 1927: Gyula Maurer (poster)
Died:
- 1873: Charles Dupin (poster)
- 1963: Edward Titchmarsh (poster)
- 1981: Rufus Isaacs (poster)
- 2011: John Herivel (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Jacob Bronowski
... I find both a special pleasure and constraint in describing the progress of mathematics, because it has been part of so much speculation: a ladder for mystical as well as rational thought in the intellectual ascent of man.
