MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
4th April
Born:
- 1782: Vincenzo Flauti
- 1790: Jean-Baptiste Bélanger *
- 1809: Benjamin Peirce *
- 1842: Édouard Lucas *
- 1863: Jean-Marie Le Roux
- 1868: Philippa Fawcett *
- 1884: Thomas MacRobert *
- 1902: Eberhard Hopf *
- 1939: Mary Lee Wheat Gray *
- 1949: Shing-Tung Yau *
Died:
- 1617: John Napier *
- 1807: Jérôme Lalande *
- 1923: John Venn *
- 1925: Walter Rouse Ball *
- 1949: William Threlfall *
- 1961: Simion Stoilow *
- 1981: Carl Siegel *
- 1991: Hans Reichardt *
- 2012: Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovskii *
- 2017: Dan Mostow *
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.
