MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
25th January
Born:
- 1627: Robert Boyle *
- 1736: Joseph-Louis Lagrange *
- 1812: William Shanks *
- 1843: Hermann Schwarz *
- 1855: Christian Juel *
- 1855: Gyula Vályi *
- 1870: Helge von Koch *
- 1890: Philip Stein *
- 1905: Leo Zippin *
- 1911: Emanuels Grinbergs *
- 1916: Frederick Atkinson *
Died:
- 1894: Emil Weyr *
- 1935: Alfred Loewy *
- 1940: Ernesto Pascal *
- 1942: Nikolaos Hatzidakis *
- 1956: Louis Karpinski *
- 1973: Wilhelm Ljunggren *
- 1977: Friedrich Karl Schmidt *
- 1994: Stephen C Kleene *
- 1995: Albert Tucker *
- 2000: Herta Freitag *
Quotation of the day
From Joseph-Louis Lagrange
[a quotation from De Morgan]
Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). he went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him which he had not observed: he muttered: "Il faut que j'y songe encore ", and put the paper in his pocket.
[I must think about it again.]
