MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
1st April
Born:
- 1617: Seth Ward (poster)
- 1640: Georg Mohr
- 1776: Sophie Germain (poster)
- 1801: Henry Perigal (poster)
- 1835: James Moriarty (poster)
- 1874: Ernest William Barnes (poster)
- 1895: Alec Aitken (poster)
- 1916: Sheila Edmonds (poster)
- 1935: Bronius Grigelionis
- 1947: Alain Connes
Died:
- 1863: Jakob Steiner (poster)
- 1872: Martin Ohm (poster)
- 1921: Carl Johannes Thomae (poster)
- 1930: George Gibson (poster)
- 1968: Lev Landau (poster)
- 1998: Mary Warner
- 2003: Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Lev Landau
Cosmologists are often wrong, but never in doubt.
