MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
11th July
Born:
- 1732: Jérôme Lalande (poster)
- 1857: Joseph Larmor (poster)
- 1888: Yakov Davydovich Tamarkin (poster)
- 1890: Giacomo Albanese (poster)
- 1898: Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa
- 1904: Helmut Grunsky (poster)
- 1908: Alfred Hoblitzelle Clifford (poster)
- 1920: Roman Sikorski
- 1922: J W S Cassels (poster)
Died:
- 1382: Nicholas Oresme (poster)
- 1733: Jakob Hermann (poster)
- 1807: George Atwood
- 1909: Simon Newcomb (poster)
- 1950: Arthur Conway (poster)
- 1955: Gustave Dumas (poster)
- 1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Simon Newcomb
Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.
