MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
26th January
Born:
- 1799: Émile Clapeyron (poster)
- 1862: Eliakim Moore (poster)
- 1945: John Coates (poster)
- 1947: András Huhn (poster)
Died:
- 1630: Henry Briggs
- 1697: Georg Mohr
- 1895: Arthur Cayley (poster)
- 1921: Alexander Pell (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 (poster)
- 2008: Anthony Spencer (poster)
- 2020: Louis Nirenberg (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Arthur Cayley
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
