MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
19th January
Born:
- 1781: Giorgio Bidone
- 1833: Alfred Clebsch (poster)
- 1851: Emanuel Czuber (poster)
- 1865: Hector Macdonald (poster)
- 1877: William Gentle (poster)
- 1879: Guido Fubini (poster)
- 1908: Aleksandr G Kurosh (poster)
- 1911: Garrett Birkhoff (poster)
- 1912: Leonid Vital'evich Kantorovich (poster)
- 1917: Graham Higman (poster)
Died:
- 1930: Frank Ramsey (poster)
- 1951: John Meiklejohn (poster)
- 1954: Theodor Kaluza (poster)
- 1982: Demetrios Magiros (poster)
- 2007: Asger Aaboe (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Frank Ramsey
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.
