MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
18th May
Born:
- 1048: Omar Khayyam *
- 1711: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich *
- 1850: Oliver Heaviside *
- 1853: Albert Badoureau *
- 1872: Bertrand Russell *
- 1914: Stefan Schwarz *
- 1937: Horace Mochizuki
- 1946: Celia Hoyles *
Died:
- 1924: Corrado Segre *
- 1954: Selig Brodetsky *
- 1965: Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis *
- 1971: Aleksandr G Kurosh *
Quotation of the day
From Bertrand Russell
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers.
