MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th April
Born:
- 1588: Thomas Hobbes (poster)
- 1622: Vincenzo Viviani (poster)
- 1869: Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin (poster)
- 1877: Georg Faber
- 1918: Wanda Szmielew
Died:
- 1678: Claude Hardy
- 1684: William Brouncker (poster)
- 1827: John Hellins (poster)
- 1861: Ferdinand Joachimsthal (poster)
- 1933: Hjalmar Mellin (poster)
- 1951: Lawrence Crawford
- 1955: Tibor Szele
- 2009: Irving John Good
Quotation of the day
From Thomas Hobbes
[a quotation by John Aubrey]
I have heard Mr Hobbes say that he was wont to draw lines on his thigh and on his sheets, abed and also multiply and divide.
