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)
- 1865: Rosenberg, Fabian
- 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 (poster)
- 2005: Edward Maitland Wright (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself... When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with... that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been... the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.
