MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
3rd December
Born:
- 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
- 1984: Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin
- 1995: Catherine Steele (poster)
- 2004: Shiing-shen Chern (poster)
- 2010: Cora Sadosky
- 2016: Donald Pack
Quotation of the day
From John Backus
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be - you aren't stretching your imagination.
