MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
19th October
Born:
- 1795: Arthur Jules Morin (poster)
- 1871: John Miller (poster)
- 1903: Jean Delsarte (poster)
- 1910: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (poster)
- 1939: Doris Schattschneider (poster)
Died:
- 1586: Egnatio Danti (poster)
- 1878: Jules Bienaymé (poster)
- 1890: Émile Mathieu
- 1944: Dénes König (poster)
- 1972: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (poster)
- 1979: Marjorie Lee Browne (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a
discovery
of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
