MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th November
Born:
- 1848: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (poster)
- 1866: Alfred Tauber (poster)
- 1872: John Meiklejohn (poster)
- 1899: Karl Dörge
- 1916: Edmund Hlawka
- 1930: Frank Adams (poster)
- 1952: Bob Thomason
Died:
- 1526: Scipione del Ferro
- 1800: Jesse Ramsden (poster)
- 1879: James Clerk Maxwell (poster)
- 1934: Walther von Dyck (poster)
- 1981: Stanisław Mazur (poster)
- 1995: Bob Thomason
- 2009: Chandra Kintala (poster)
Quotation of the day
From James Clerk Maxwell
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.
[Maxwell strongly disagreed with these views and was attacking them.]
