MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th July
Born:
- 1831: Amédée Mannheim (poster)
- 1837: Wilhelm Lexis (poster)
- 1863: Herbert Richmond (poster)
- 1868: Peter Comrie (poster)
- 1894: Georges Lemaître (poster)
- 1894: Warren Weaver (poster)
- 1909: Geoffrey Walker (poster)
- 1913: Giuseppe Pompilj
- 1944: Krystyna Kuperberg
- 1975: Terence Tao (poster)
Died:
- 1790: Johann(II) Bernoulli (poster)
- 1912: Henri Poincaré (poster)
- 1917: Giuseppe Veronese (poster)
- 1949: Roland Richardson
- 1980: Boris Nikolaevich Delone (poster)
- 1993: Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (poster)
- 1998: Sir James Lighthill (poster)
- 2007: François Bruhat (poster)
- 2011: Norrie Everitt
Quotation of the day
From Henri Poincaré
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
