MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th February
Born:
- 1723: Tobias Mayer (poster)
- 1765: James Ivory
- 1890: R A Fisher (poster)
- 1891: Abraham Fraenkel (poster)
- 1896: Evgeny Remez (poster)
- 1905: Rózsa Péter (poster)
- 1918: Jacqueline Ferrand
- 1950: Viktor Aleksandrovich Gorbunov
Died:
- 1600: Giordano Bruno (poster)
- 1874: Adolphe Quetelet (poster)
- 1947: Ettore Bortolotti
- 1964: Heinrich Tietze (poster)
- 2012: Nicolaas de Bruijn (poster)
- 2017: Magnus Wenninger
Quotation of the day
From Heinrich Tietze
The story was told that the young Dirichlet had as a constant companion all his travels, like a devout man with his prayer book, an old, worn copy of the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae of Gauss.
