MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
6th April
Born:
- 1732: José Mutis *
- 1749: Samuel Vince *
- 1851: Guillaume Bigourdan *
- 1875: Michele de Franchis *
- 1934: Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii *
Died:
- 1528: Albrecht Dürer *
- 1829: Niels Abel *
- 1938: Aurel Angelescu *
- 1993: J C Burkill *
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.
