MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th October
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Born:
- 1732: Nevil Maskelyne Ⓟ
- 1781: Bernard Bolzano Ⓟ
- 1861: Thomas Heath Ⓟ
- 1898: Philip Franklin Ⓟ
- 1911: Pilar Ribeiro Ⓟ
- 1930: Reinhard Selten Ⓟ
- 1932: Hyman Bass Ⓟ
Died:
- 1565: Lodovico Ferrari
- 1761: Gabriele Manfredi Ⓟ
- 1777: Johann Segner Ⓟ
- 1906: Ludwig Boltzmann Ⓟ
- 1909: Irving Stringham Ⓟ
- 1939: Alice Lee Ⓟ
- 1972: Solomon Lefschetz Ⓟ
- 1985: Harald Cramér Ⓟ
- 1985: Karl Menger Ⓟ
- 1986: Jim Wilkinson Ⓟ
- 2009: Israil Gelfand Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From Bernard Bolzano
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
