Mathematicians Of The Day

22nd April



On this day in 1715 (old style), the first total solar eclipse visible in London for 500 years took place. Halley predicted its timing to within four minutes and observed it in London with 3 minutes 33 seconds of totality.

A (personally designed) stamp of one of today's mathematicians is at THIS LINK.

Click on for a poster.


Quotation of the day

From Michael Atiyah
The most useful piece of advice I would give to a mathematics student is always to suspect an impressive sounding Theorem if it does not have a special case which is both simple and non-trivial.