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
- 1938: Hideo Tanaka
Died:
- 1667: Jacob Gool (poster)
- 1694: Gabriel Mouton
- 1869: Guglielmo Libri (poster)
- 1928: Pierre Puiseux
- 1949: Karl Sundman (poster)
- 1953: Edwin Hubble (poster)
- 1967: Stanislaw Knapowski
- 1992: John Leech (poster)
- 1998: Anzelm Iwanik
- 2004: Jack van Lint
Quotation of the day
From Julian Coolidge
The unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, but they had better lead to something interesting.
