MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
21st April
Born:
- 1652: Michel Rolle
- 1774: Jean-Baptiste Biot (poster)
- 1851: Alexander Macfarlane (poster)
- 1869: Philipp Furtwängler (poster)
- 1875: Teiji Takagi (poster)
- 1895: Archil Kirillovich Kharadze
- 1903: Isaac Schoenberg (poster)
- 1904: Jurjen Koksma (poster)
- 1909: Eduard Stiefel (poster)
- 1931: Robert C Thompson
- 1936: Richard Schelp (poster)
- 1946: Anzelm Iwanik (poster)
- 1951: Michael Freedman (poster)
Died:
- 1552: Petrus Apianus (poster)
- 1718: Philippe de la Hire (poster)
- 1825: Johann Friedrich Pfaff (poster)
- 1922: Alfred Kempe (poster)
- 1946: John Maynard Keynes (poster)
- 1954: Emil Post (poster)
- 2005: William Kruskal (poster)
- 2008: Aleksandr Yakovlevich Povzner (poster)
- 2010: Herbert Federer (poster)
Quotation of the day
From John Maynard Keynes
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
