MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
29th November
Born:
- 1803: Christian Doppler (poster)
- 1847: George Greenhill (poster)
- 1849: Horace Lamb (poster)
- 1854: Christian Beyel
- 1859: Jérôme Franel (poster)
- 1866: Ernest Brown (poster)
- 1879: Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov (poster)
- 1892: Gustav Doetsch (poster)
- 1959: Richard Borcherds
Died:
- 1759: Nicolaus(I) Bernoulli
- 1920: Thomas Bond Sprague (poster)
- 1953: Ernest William Barnes (poster)
- 1991: Theodor Estermann (poster)
- 1992: Jean Dieudonné (poster)
- 2004: Johannes Boersma
- 2010: Richard Schelp
Quotation of the day
From Jean Dieudonné
Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.
