MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
11th April
Born:
- 1894: Paul Finsler *
- 1896: Robert Geary *
- 1904: Philip Hall *
- 1907: Henry Scheffé *
- 1908: Brian Kuttner *
- 1914: Dorothy Bernstein *
- 1921: Leo Moser *
- 1953: Andrew Wiles *
Died:
- 1626: Marino Ghetaldi *
- 1711: Louis Carré
- 1734: Thomas Fantet de Lagny *
- 1908: Christian Adolph Mayer *
- 1974: Abraham Robinson *
- 1977: Mauro Picone *
- 1989: Emil Grosswald *
- 2020: John Conway *
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.
