MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
26th January
Born:
- 1799: Émile Clapeyron (poster)
- 1862: Eliakim Moore (poster)
- 1945: John Coates
- 1947: András Huhn
Died:
- 1630: Henry Briggs
- 1697: Georg Mohr
- 1895: Arthur Cayley (poster)
- 1929: Constantin Le Paige (poster)
- 1937: Robert de Montessus (poster)
- 1942: Felix Hausdorff (poster)
- 1952: James Craig
- 1974: Thomas Graham (poster)
- 2007: Gregory Maxwell Kelly
- 2008: Anthony Spencer
- 2020: Louis Nirenberg (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Eliakim Moore
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction:
"The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features...."
