MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
11th April
Born:
- 1894: Paul Finsler (poster)
- 1896: Robert Geary
- 1904: Philip Hall (poster)
- 1907: Henry Scheffé (poster)
- 1908: Brian Kuttner (poster)
- 1914: Dorothy Bernstein (poster)
- 1921: Leo Moser (poster)
- 1953: Andrew Wiles (poster)
Died:
- 1626: Marino Ghetaldi (poster)
- 1711: Louis Carré
- 1734: Thomas Fantet de Lagny (poster)
- 1908: Christian Adolph Mayer (poster)
- 1974: Abraham Robinson (poster)
- 1977: Mauro Picone (poster)
- 1989: Emil Grosswald (poster)
- 2020: John Conway (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Andrew Wiles
...Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
