MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
16th February
Born:
- 1514: Georg Joachim Rheticus (poster)
- 1698: Pierre Bouguer (poster)
- 1822: Francis Galton (poster)
- 1891: Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
- 1903: Beniamino Segre (poster)
- 1903: Geoffrey Timms (poster)
- 1905: Tiberiu Popoviciu (poster)
- 1908: Guglielmo Righini (poster)
- 1937: Yuri Ivanovich Manin (poster)
Died:
- 1637: Henry Gellibrand
- 1892: Thomas Hirst (poster)
- 1971: Rex Tims
- 1976: Lyudmila Vsevolodovna Keldysh (poster)
- 1977: Rózsa Péter (poster)
- 1980: Edward Copson (poster)
- 1999: James McConnell (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Georg Joachim Rheticus
The planets show again and again all the phenomena which God desired to be seen from the earth.
