MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
1st February
Born:
- 1840: Allen Whitworth *
- 1888: Hermann Kober *
- 1900: J C Burkill *
- 1902: Jovan Karamata *
- 1905: Ernst Stueckelberg *
- 1913: Ernest Corominas *
- 1916: George Mackey *
Died:
- 1869: Theodore Strong *
- 1903: George Stokes *
- 1942: Arnold Scholz *
- 1970: Alfréd Rényi *
- 1976: Werner Heisenberg *
- 1986: Ida Rhodes *
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.
