MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
28th March
Born:
- 1847: Gyula Farkas (poster)
- 1923: Yitz Herstein (poster)
- 1928: Alexander Grothendieck (poster)
- 1949: Fritz Grunewald
- 1949: Leslie Valiant
Died:
- 1678: Claude Dechales
- 1840: Simon Lhuilier
- 1850: Bernt Holmboe (poster)
- 1946: David Gibb (poster)
- 1950: Ernst Hellinger (poster)
- 1973: Doris Hellman (poster)
- 2011: Pilar Ribeiro (poster)
- 2013: George Box (poster)
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.
