MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
10th February
Born:
- 1747: Aida Yasuaki (poster)
- 1785: Claude-Louis Navier (poster)
- 1842: Agnes Mary Clerke (poster)
- 1886: Pia Nalli (poster)
- 1888: Selig Brodetsky (poster)
- 1888: David Kennedy Fraser
- 1894: Jacov Il'ich Frenkel (poster)
- 1901: Richard Brauer (poster)
- 1908: Ida Busbridge
- 1911: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (poster)
- 1932: Vivienne Malone-Mayes
- 1944: Abram Naumovich Trakhtman
Died:
- 1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya (poster)
- 1927: George Greenhill (poster)
- 1951: George Miller (poster)
- 1994: Fritz John (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Sofia Kovalevskaya
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
