MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
3rd December
Born:
- 1901: Levan Gokieli
- 1903: Sydney Goldstein (poster)
- 1924: John Backus (poster)
- 1933: Dorothy Foster (poster)
- 1936: Jerome Keisler
- 1967: Marie Françoise Ouedraogo (poster)
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 (poster)
- 2016: Donald Pack
Quotation of the day
From John Backus
You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to
work very hard only to discover that they don't work.
And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.
