MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
31st January
Born:
- 1715: Giovanni Fagnano
- 1841: Samuel Loyd (poster)
- 1886: Neville Watson (poster)
- 1896: Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (poster)
- 1914: Lev Arkad'evich Kaluznin (poster)
- 1928: Heinz Bauer (poster)
- 1945: Persi Diaconis (poster)
Died:
- 1632: Jost Bürgi (poster)
- 1862: Charles MacKenzie
- 1903: Norman Ferrers (poster)
- 1934: Duncan Sommerville (poster)
- 1973: Noel Slater (poster)
- 1976: Lloyd Williams (poster)
- 1980: Emanuel Sperner (poster)
- 2005: Lee Segel
- 2014: Stein Arild Stromme
Quotation of the day
From Lloyd Williams
It is my considered opinion that the system practiced in the universities of North America of trying to educate young men and young women by herding them together in rooms and lecturing to them is a failure. If you will throw the good and the ambitious student on his own, help him but not spoon-feed him, he can accomplish twice as much and do it twice as well as he can under the conditions that largely obtain in our universities.
