MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
26th June
Born:
- 1824: William Thomson (poster)
- 1878: Leopold Löwenheim (poster)
- 1896: Vernon Morton (poster)
- 1902: Hans Petersson (poster)
- 1908: Hermann Ludwig Schmid (poster)
- 1911: Ernst Witt (poster)
- 1914: Lyman Spitzer (poster)
- 1915: Paul Kelly (poster)
- 1918: Yudell Luke (poster)
Died:
- 1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (poster)
- 1796: David Rittenhouse (poster)
- 1903: Walter Gröbli (poster)
- 1946: Béla Kerékjártó (poster)
- 1951: George Udny Yule (poster)
- 1967: H T H Piaggio
- 1975: Joseph Proudman (poster)
- 1990: Hans Schwerdtfeger (poster)
- 1997: Roberto Frucht (poster)
- 2011: Jack Warga (poster)
Quotation of the day
From William Thomson
When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.
