MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th October
Born:
- 1759: Jacob (II) Bernoulli (poster)
- 1808: Philip Kelland (poster)
- 1870: David J Tweedie
- 1888: Paul Bernays (poster)
- 1927: Friedrich Hirzebruch (poster)
Died:
- 1817: John West
- 1887: Gustav Kirchhoff (poster)
- 1923: August Adler
- 1937: Frank Morley (poster)
- 1952: Ernest Vessiot (poster)
- 1963: Jacques Hadamard (poster)
- 1976: Edward Marczewski (poster)
- 1978: Gertrude Cox (poster)
- 1989: Mark Krein (poster)
- 2008: Andrew Gleason (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Jacques Hadamard
Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.
