MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
30th April
Born:
- 1773: Johann Karl Burckhardt (poster)
- 1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss (poster)
- 1861: John Clark
- 1875: Archibald Milne
- 1905: Serge Mikhalovich Nikolski
- 1911: Wolfgang Hahn
- 1916: Claude E Shannon (poster)
Died:
- 1959: Luigi Brusotti
- 1977: Charles Fox (poster)
- 2011: Daniel Quillen (poster)
- 2012: Bruce Kellogg
Quotation of the day
From Carl Friedrich Gauss
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians,
Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
