MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
2nd February
Born:
- 1522: Lodovico Ferrari
- 1765: Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky (poster)
- 1786: Jacques Binet (poster)
- 1793: William Hopkins (poster)
- 1842: Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotsky (poster)
- 1849: Leopold Gegenbauer (poster)
- 1860: August Gutzmer (poster)
- 1870: Henri Fehr
- 1881: Gustav Herglotz (poster)
- 1882: Joseph Wedderburn (poster)
- 1893: Cornelius Lanczos (poster)
- 1894: Hendrik Kramers (poster)
- 1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski (poster)
- 1897: Gertrude Blanch (poster)
- 1903: Bartel van der Waerden (poster)
Died:
- 1612: Christopher Clavius (poster)
- 1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital (poster)
- 1841: Olinthus Gregory (poster)
- 1911: Charles Méray (poster)
- 1950: Constantin Carathéodory (poster)
- 1965: Neville Watson (poster)
- 1970: Bertrand Russell (poster)
- 1971: Yurii Sokolov (poster)
- 1974: Imre Lakatos
- 2005: Edward Maitland Wright (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.
