MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
9th October
Born:
- 1581: Claude Gaspar Bachet (poster)
- 1704: Johann Segner (poster)
- 1873: Karl Schwarzschild (poster)
- 1898: Heinrich Behnke (poster)
- 1901: Winifred Deans (poster)
- 1911: Luis Antonio Santaló
- 1927: Friedrich Horn
- 1928: Richard Varga (poster)
- 1941: Alan Day
- 1949: Fan Chung
Died:
- 1253: Robert Grosseteste (poster)
- 1806: Benjamin Banneker (poster)
- 1807: Gianfrancesco Malfatti (poster)
- 1909: Hugh Blackburn (poster)
- 1948: Joseph Wedderburn (poster)
- 1990: Georges de Rham (poster)
- 2019: Richard Askey (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Benjamin Banneker
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
