Mathematicians Of The Day
17th March
Born:
- 1876: Ernest Esclangon *
- 1897: Charles Fox *
- 1915: Wolfgang Doeblin *
Died:
- 1652: Benjamin Bramer *
- 1782: Daniel Bernoulli *
- 1808: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg
- 1846: Wilhelm Bessel *
- 1853: Christian Doppler *
- 1921: Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii *
- 1922: Heinrich Suter *
- 1946: Alexander Morgan
- 1955: Georges Valiron
- 1956: Henry Baker *
- 1962: Wilhelm Blaschke *
- 1964: Henry Sheffer *
- 2007: John Backus *
- 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.