MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
13th June
Born:
- 1555: Giovanni Magini (poster)
- 1580: Willebrord Snell (poster)
- 1773: Thomas Young (poster)
- 1831: James Clerk Maxwell (poster)
- 1871: Ernst Steinitz (poster)
- 1872: Chrystal Macmillan (poster)
- 1876: William Gosset (poster)
- 1883: Neil McArthur
- 1891: Pierre Humbert (poster)
- 1906: Bruno de Finetti (poster)
- 1928: John F Nash (poster)
- 1931: Herbert Wilf
- 1966: Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (poster)
Died:
- 1660: William Oughtred (poster)
- 1909: Albin Herzog (poster)
- 1939: Hermann Wiener (poster)
- 1991: Marek Kuczma
- 1994: John Britton
Quotation of the day
From James Clerk Maxwell
I have also a paper afloat, with an electromagnetic theory of light, which, till I am convinced to the contrary, I hold to be great guns.
