MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
3rd September
Born:
- 1814: James Joseph Sylvester (poster)
- 1868: Charles Shirra Dougall (poster)
- 1874: Carl Størmer (poster)
- 1884: Solomon Lefschetz (poster)
- 1908: Lev Pontryagin (poster)
Died:
- 1967: William Milne (poster)
- 1984: Wilhelm Winkler (poster)
- 1996: Bent Christiansen
- 2016: Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Quotation of the day
From James Joseph Sylvester
Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen [Arthur Cayley and George Salmon] leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?
