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 Ernst Zermelo
...self-evidence ... must not be confused with ... provability.
