MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
21st April
Born:
- 1652: Michel Rolle
- 1774: Jean-Baptiste Biot (poster)
- 1869: Philipp Furtwängler (poster)
- 1875: Teiji Takagi (poster)
- 1903: Isaac Schoenberg (poster)
- 1904: Jurjen Koksma (poster)
- 1909: Eduard Stiefel (poster)
- 1931: Robert Thompson
- 1936: Richard Schelp
- 1946: Anzelm Iwanik
- 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
- 2008: Aleksandr Yakovlevich Povzner
- 2010: Herbert Federer
Quotation of the day
From John Maynard Keynes
In the long run, we are all dead.
