MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
3rd December
Born:
- 1901: Levan Gokieli
- 1903: Sydney Goldstein (poster)
- 1924: John Backus (poster)
- 1936: Jerome Keisler
- 1967: Marie Françoise Ouedraogo
Died:
- 1945: James Watt
- 1956: Felix Bernstein (poster)
- 1983: Elliott Montroll (poster)
- 1984: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (poster)
- 1995: Catherine Steele (poster)
- 2004: Shiing-shen Chern (poster)
- 2010: Cora Sadosky
- 2016: Donald Pack
Quotation of the day
From John Backus
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.
