MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th March
Born:
- 1512: Gerard Mercator (poster)
- 1574: William Oughtred (poster)
- 1624: John Collins
- 1779: Benjamin Gompertz (poster)
- 1817: Angelo Genocchi (poster)
- 1842: Heinrich Weber (poster)
- 1872: Gustave Dumas
- 1880: Sergei Bernstein (poster)
- 1885: Pauline Sperry (poster)
- 1887: Otto Haupt
- 1915: Laurent Schwartz (poster)
- 1917: István Fenyő
- 1924: Ottó Steinfeld
- 1931: Vera Pless
- 1960: 'Mamphono Khaketla
Died:
- 1827: Pierre-Simon Laplace (poster)
- 1875: Claude-Louis Mathieu (poster)
- 1925: Johan Ludwig Jensen (poster)
- 1927: Franz Mertens (poster)
- 1930: Christine Ladd-Franklin (poster)
- 1954: Julian Coolidge (poster)
- 1990: Edgar Raymond Lorch
- 2013: James Clunie
Quotation of the day
From Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.
