MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th October
Born:
- 1759: Jacob(II) Bernoulli (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)
- 2008: Andrew Gleason
Quotation of the day
From Frank Morley
If the angles of any triangle be trisected, the triangle, formed by the meets of pairs of trisectors, each pair being adjacent to the same side, is equilateral.
Morley's Theorem
