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