MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
5th November
Born:
- 1848: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (poster)
- 1866: Alfred Tauber (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)
- 2009: Chandra Kintala
Quotation of the day
From James Clerk Maxwell
My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marline-spike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying,
Wherein they fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
