MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
1st February
Born:
- 1840: Allen Whitworth (poster)
- 1888: Hermann Kober (poster)
- 1900: J C Burkill (poster)
- 1905: Ernst Stueckelberg (poster)
- 1913: Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux
- 1916: George Mackey (poster)
Died:
- 1869: Theodore Strong (poster)
- 1903: George Stokes (poster)
- 1942: Arnold Scholz
- 1970: Alfréd Rényi (poster)
- 1976: Werner Heisenberg (poster)
- 1986: Ida Rhodes (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Werner Heisenberg
I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.
