MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
23rd January
Born:
- 1719: John Landen
- 1806: Ferdinand Minding (poster)
- 1840: Ernst Abbe (poster)
- 1854: Leopold Klug (poster)
- 1862: David Hilbert (poster)
- 1878: Edwin P Adams (poster)
- 1889: Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich (poster)
- 1924: James Lighthill (poster)
Died:
- 1785: Matthew Stewart (poster)
- 1952: Jacov Il'ich Frenkel (poster)
- 1953: Kazimierz Żorawski (poster)
- 1987: Sergei Chernikov (poster)
- 1991: Ole Peder Arvesen
Quotation of the day
From David Hilbert
Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.
