MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th August
Born:
- 1802: Niels Abel (poster)
- 1855: Alfredo Capelli
- 1878: Louis Karpinski (poster)
- 1889: Hans Hamburger (poster)
- 1936: Ki Hang Kim
Died:
- 1853: Théodore Olivier (poster)
- 1872: Charles Eugène Delaunay (poster)
- 1910: Julius Petersen (poster)
- 1981: Jerzy Neyman (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Niels Abel
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.
