MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
28th March
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Born:
- 1847: Gyula Farkas Ⓟ
- 1923: Yitz Herstein Ⓟ
- 1928: Alexander Grothendieck Ⓟ
- 1949: Fritz Grunewald Ⓟ
- 1949: Leslie Valiant Ⓟ
Died:
- 1678: Claude Dechales
- 1840: Simon Lhuilier
- 1850: Bernt Holmboe Ⓟ
- 1946: David Gibb Ⓟ
- 1950: Ernst Hellinger Ⓟ
- 1973: Doris Hellman Ⓟ
- 2011: Pilar Ribeiro Ⓟ
- 2013: George Box Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bernt Holmboe
[Christopher] Hansteen declared that proofs should not be used in elementary teaching before it was necessary because, he argued, it invited students to memorize without understanding. To this, [Michael] Holmboe replied that one either has to prove all or nothing, as half a proof is worse than no proof.
