MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
6th April
Born:
- 1732: José Mutis
- 1749: Samuel Vince (poster)
- 1851: Guillaume Bigourdan
- 1875: Michele de Franchis (poster)
- 1934: Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii (poster)
Died:
- 1528: Albrecht Dürer (poster)
- 1829: Niels Abel (poster)
- 1938: Aurel Angelescu (poster)
- 1993: J C Burkill (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Niels Abel
If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words,the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.
