MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th March
Born:
- 1876: Ernest Esclangon (poster)
- 1897: Charles Fox (poster)
- 1915: Wolfgang Doeblin
Died:
- 1652: Benjamin Bramer
- 1782: Daniel Bernoulli (poster)
- 1808: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg
- 1846: Wilhelm Bessel (poster)
- 1853: Christian Doppler (poster)
- 1921: Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii (poster)
- 1922: Heinrich Suter (poster)
- 1946: Alexander Morgan
- 1956: Henry Baker (poster)
- 1962: Wilhelm Blaschke (poster)
- 2007: John Backus (poster)
- 2012: Gary Roach
Quotation of the day
From Daniel Bernoulli
...it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
