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:
- 1704: Henry Coley (poster)
- 1959: Luigi Brusotti
- 1977: Charles Fox (poster)
- 1980: Stanisław Gołąb (poster)
- 1989: Gottfried Köthe (poster)
- 2011: Daniel Quillen (poster)
- 2012: Bruce Kellogg (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Carl Friedrich Gauss
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
