MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
24th February
Born:
- 1868: James Craig
- 1878: Felix Bernstein (poster)
- 1909: Max Black (poster)
- 1918: Geoffrey Kneebone
- 1920: Sree Pillai
- 1932: Siobhan Vernon
- 1946: Gregori Margulis
Died:
- 1728: Charles René Reyneau
- 1812: Étienne Louis Malus (poster)
- 1844: Antoine-André-Louis Reynaud
- 1856: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (poster)
- 1871: Julius Weisbach (poster)
- 1929: Mauritz Dahlin
- 1933: Eugenio Bertini (poster)
- 1954: Fabio Conforto (poster)
- 2001: Claude E Shannon (poster)
- 2020: Katherine Johnson (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
