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
- 1872: Mary Somerville (poster)
- 1920: Thomas Bond Sprague (poster)
- 1935: Ivar Bendixson (poster)
- 1953: Ernest William Barnes (poster)
- 1991: Theodor Estermann (poster)
- 1992: Jean Dieudonné (poster)
- 2004: Johannes Boersma
- 2010: Richard Schelp (poster)
- 2020: Iossif Vladimirovich Ostrovskii (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Jean Dieudonné
Certain foreigners, invited as spectators to Bourbaki meetings, always come out with the impression that it is a gathering of madmen. They could not imagine how these people, shouting (sometimes three or four at the same time) about mathematics, could ever come up with anything intelligent.
