MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
18th April
Born:
- 1875: Ugo Amaldi
- 1889: Thomas Lancaster Wren (poster)
- 1892: Dmitrii Menshov (poster)
- 1904: Stefan Warschawski (poster)
- 1907: Lars Ahlfors (poster)
- 1916: Ellis Kolchin
- 1918: Hsien C Wang
- 1928: Mikio Sato
- 1949: Charles Fefferman (poster)
Died:
- 1756: Jacques Cassini (poster)
- 1803: Louis Arbogast
- 1913: Pieter Hendrik Schoute (poster)
- 1943: William Metzler (poster)
- 1955: Albert Einstein (poster)
- 1961: Abraham Plessner (poster)
- 1999: Gian-Carlo Rota (poster)
- 2000: Mary Cannell
- 2009: Alberto Dou
Quotation of the day
From Albert Einstein
Reading after a certain time diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Quoted in Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
[EFR: For a modern view replace reading by watching television.]
