MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
1st June
Born:
- 1796: Sadi Carnot (poster)
- 1815: Osip Somov (poster)
- 1851: Edwin Elliott (poster)
- 1884: Eduard Helly (poster)
- 1899: Edward Titchmarsh (poster)
Died:
- 1867: Karl von Staudt (poster)
- 1941: Kurt Hensel (poster)
- 1947: David Enskog (poster)
- 1989: Edward McShane (poster)
- 1996: Gaetano Fichera
- 1998: Mikhail Moiseevich Lesokhin
- 1998: Jerzy Łoś
- 2006: Shokichi Iyanaga (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Edward Titchmarsh
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.
