MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
22nd May
Born:
- 1848: Hermann Schubert (poster)
- 1865: Alfred Dixon (poster)
- 1881: William Milne (poster)
- 1893: Bronisław Knaster
- 1903: Bertha Swirles Jeffreys (poster)
- 1903: Yves Rocard (poster)
- 1916: Albrecht Fröhlich (poster)
- 1931: Czesław Olech
Died:
- 1815: William Spence (poster)
- 1868: Julius Plücker (poster)
- 1935: Sotero Prieto
- 1967: Josip Plemelj (poster)
- 1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (poster)
- 1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer (poster)
- 2009: Walter Ledermann (poster)
- 2010: Martin Gardner (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Martin Gardner
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals -- the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
