MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
14th March
Born:
- 1811: Andrew Hart
- 1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes (poster)
- 1864: József Kürschák (poster)
- 1879: Albert Einstein (poster)
- 1882: Wacław Sierpiński (poster)
- 1889: Oscar Chisini (poster)
- 1896: Nora Calderwood
- 1912: Pierre Lelong
Died:
- 1907: Jakob Rebstein
- 1937: Edvard Phragmén (poster)
- 1973: Howard Aiken (poster)
- 2018: Stephen Hawking (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Stephen Hawking
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.
