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