MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th February
Born:
- 1723: Tobias Mayer *
- 1765: James Ivory
- 1890: R A Fisher *
- 1891: Abraham Fraenkel *
- 1896: Evgeny Remez *
- 1905: Rózsa Péter *
- 1918: Jacqueline Ferrand *
- 1950: Viktor Aleksandrovich Gorbunov *
Died:
- 1600: Giordano Bruno *
- 1874: Adolphe Quetelet *
- 1947: Ettore Bortolotti *
- 1964: Heinrich Tietze *
- 2012: Nicolaas de Bruijn *
- 2017: Magnus Wenninger *
Quotation of the day
From R A Fisher
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya, ca 1938.
