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 (poster)
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 Derrick Henry Lehmer
The real difficulty lies in the fact that only a finite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin, whereas the mathematician is more apt to be interested in the infinite angel problem only.
