MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
4th April
Born:
- 1782: Vincenzo Flauti
- 1790: Jean-Baptiste Bélanger (poster)
- 1809: Benjamin Peirce (poster)
- 1842: Édouard Lucas (poster)
- 1863: Jean-Marie Le Roux
- 1868: Philippa Fawcett (poster)
- 1884: Thomas MacRobert (poster)
- 1902: Eberhard Hopf (poster)
- 1939: Mary Lee Wheat Gray (poster)
- 1949: Shing-Tung Yau (poster)
Died:
- 1617: John Napier (poster)
- 1807: Jérôme Lalande (poster)
- 1923: John Venn (poster)
- 1925: Walter Rouse Ball (poster)
- 1949: William Threlfall (poster)
- 1961: Simion Stoilow (poster)
- 1981: Carl Siegel (poster)
- 1991: Hans Reichardt (poster)
- 2012: Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovskii (poster)
- 2017: Dan Mostow (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Walter Rouse Ball
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in writing.
