Mathematicians Of The Day
18th April
Born:
- 1875: Ugo Amaldi *
- 1889: Thomas Lancaster Wren *
- 1892: Dmitrii Menshov *
- 1901: Bento Caraça *
- 1904: Stefan Warschawski *
- 1907: Lars Ahlfors *
- 1916: Ellis Kolchin *
- 1918: Hsien C Wang *
- 1928: Mikio Sato *
- 1949: Charles Fefferman *
Died:
- 1756: Jacques Cassini *
- 1803: Louis Arbogast *
- 1913: Pieter Hendrik Schoute *
- 1943: William Metzler *
- 1955: Albert Einstein *
- 1961: Abraham Plessner *
- 1999: Gian-Carlo Rota *
- 2000: Mary Cannell *
- 2009: Alberto Dou *
Quotation of the day
From Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Address at the Sorbonne, Paris.