MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
2nd April
Born:
- 1618: Francesco Grimaldi (poster)
- 1878: Edward Kasner (poster)
- 1906: Shokichi Iyanaga (poster)
- 1908: Hans Reichardt (poster)
- 1930: Anatolii Asirovich Goldberg
- 1934: Paul Cohen (poster)
Died:
- 1872: Charles Hughes Terrot (poster)
- 1946: Dougald Mcquistan
- 1986: Thomas Room
- 1995: Hannes Alfvén (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Hannes Alfvén
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.
[Lamenting the traditional neglect of plasma physics]
