Mathematicians Of The Day
5th August
Born:
- 1802: Niels Abel *
- 1855: Alfredo Capelli *
- 1878: Louis Karpinski *
- 1889: Hans Hamburger *
- 1936: Ki Hang Kim *
Died:
- 1853: Théodore Olivier *
- 1872: Charles Eugène Delaunay *
- 1910: Julius Petersen *
- 1981: Jerzy Neyman *
Quotation of the day
From Niels Abel
If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words,the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.