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