MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
14th June
Born:
- 1444: Nilakantha
- 1736: Charles Augustin Coulomb (poster)
- 1796: Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman (poster)
- 1856: Andrei Andreyevich Markov (poster)
- 1903: Alonzo Church (poster)
- 1910: Fritz John (poster)
- 1913: Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen
- 1917: Atle Selberg (poster)
- 1935: Louise Szmir Hay
Died:
- 1746: Colin Maclaurin (poster)
- 1886: Jules Hoüel (poster)
- 1946: Federigo Enriques (poster)
- 1957: Theodoros Varopoulos
- 1969: Ottó Varga
- 2008: Yurii Alekseevich Mitropolskii
Quotation of the day
From Colin Maclaurin
[We wish to] deduce those Elements [of the theory of Fluxions] after the Manner of the Ancients from a few unexceptional Principles by Demonstrations of the strictest Form.
