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
Died:
- 1873: Charles Dupin (poster)
- 1963: Edward Titchmarsh (poster)
- 1981: Rufus Isaacs
- 2011: John Herivel
Quotation of the day
From Edward Titchmarsh
It can be of no practical use to know that π is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
