MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
28th September
Born:
- 1605: Ismael Boulliau (poster)
- 1698: Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (poster)
- 1761: François Budan
- 1824: George Allman (poster)
- 1833: Henri Delannoy (poster)
- 1873: Julian Coolidge (poster)
- 1881: Edward Ross
- 1893: Hilda Geiringer (poster)
- 1901: Kurt Friedrichs (poster)
- 1925: Martin Kruskal (poster)
- 1938: Hideo Tanaka (poster)
Died:
- 1667: Jacob Gool (poster)
- 1694: Gabriel Mouton
- 1869: Guglielmo Libri (poster)
- 1928: Pierre Puiseux
- 1949: Karl Sundman (poster)
- 1953: Edwin Hubble (poster)
- 1967: Stanisław Knapowski (poster)
- 1992: John Leech (poster)
- 1998: Anzelm Iwanik (poster)
- 2004: Jack van Lint (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Guglielmo Libri
[Poisson's] only passion has been science: he lived and is dead for it.
