MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
11th December
Born:
- 1833: François Folie (poster)
- 1840: Carl Johannes Thomae (poster)
- 1845: Vaclav Jerabek
- 1863: Annie Jump Cannon
- 1870: George Lidstone (poster)
- 1873: Josip Plemelj (poster)
- 1882: Max Born (poster)
- 1884: Otto Szász (poster)
- 1906: Samarendra Nath Roy (poster)
- 1926: Jean-Pierre Kahane
Died:
- 1784: Anders Lexell (poster)
- 1819: Monteiro da Rocha
- 1906: Amédée Mannheim (poster)
- 1910: Jules Tannery (poster)
- 1941: Émile Picard (poster)
- 1998: André Lichnerowicz (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Max Born
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore nobody will object to an ardent experimentalist boasting of his measurements and rather looking down on the 'paper and ink' physics of his theoretical friend, who on his part is proud of his lofty ideas and despises the dirty fingers of the other.
