MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
1st April
Born:
- 1617: Seth Ward (poster)
- 1640: Georg Mohr
- 1776: Sophie Germain (poster)
- 1874: Ernest William Barnes (poster)
- 1895: Alec Aitken (poster)
- 1916: Sheila Edmonds
- 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
Quotation of the day
From Lev Landau
We see too big
None of us has ever seen an atom,
and we do not even have any kind of inner feeling
that can help us visualize atomic events.
The discovery of quantum mechanics
and of the principle of uncertainty
has shown that man can tear himself away
from deeply rooted notions,
discover,
and accept something that is beyond his power
of visualizing.
