MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
25th June
Born:
- 1734: Monteiro da Rocha
- 1866: Ralph Sampson (poster)
- 1888: William Threlfall (poster)
- 1906: Samuel Verblunsky
- 1908: Gustav Elfving (poster)
- 1908: Willard Van Quine (poster)
- 1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin
Died:
- 1671: Giovanni Battista Riccioli (poster)
- 1936: Stefan Cohn-Vossen (poster)
- 1941: Alfred Pringsheim (poster)
- 1974: Cornelius Lanczos (poster)
- 1978: Hsien C Wang
- 1989: Udo Wegner
- 1995: Ernest Walton
- 2006: Irving Kaplansky (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Cornelius Lanczos
Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.
