MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
21st May
Born:
- 1471: Albrecht Dürer (poster)
- 1792: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (poster)
- 1858: Édouard Goursat (poster)
- 1893: Thomas Arnold Brown
- 1898: Thomas Cherry (poster)
- 1921: Ferenc Radó (poster)
- 1923: Armand Borel (poster)
- 1958: Curtis McMullen
Died:
- 1848: Pierre Wantzel
- 1937: Herbert Ellsworth Slaught (poster)
- 1946: Umberto Puppini
- 1953: Ernst Zermelo (poster)
- 1957: Aleksandr Nekrasov (poster)
- 1958: Wilhelm Süss (poster)
- 1973: Grigore Moisil (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Albrecht Dürer
But when great and ingenious artists behold their so inept performances, not undeservedly do they ridicule the blindness of such men; since sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learnt Geometry, without which no one can either be or become an absolute artist; but the blame for this should be laid upon their masters, who are themselves ignorant of this art.
