MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
29th May
Born:
- 1834: William Jack (poster)
- 1882: Harry Bateman (poster)
- 1885: Finlay Freundlich (poster)
- 1893: Charles Loewner (poster)
- 1911: George Szekeres (poster)
- 1918: David Rees (poster)
- 1957: Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Died:
- 1660: Frans van Schooten (poster)
- 1917: William Niven (poster)
- 1962: Arnold Walfisz (poster)
- 1978: Guglielmo Righini (poster)
- 1999: John Knopfmacher
- 2005: Kazimierz Urbanik (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Finlay Freundlich
The modern theory of relativity of Mr Einstein predicts an influence of any field of gravitation upon light passing near to the sun. The gravitation would have according to the investigation of Einstein the effect Of deflecting the ray of the star, and Mr Einstein asked me, if I would try to proof his results by observations.
