MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
20th December
Born:
- 1494: Oronce Fine (poster)
- 1648: Tommaso Ceva (poster)
- 1838: Edwin Abbott Abbott (poster)
- 1843: Paul Tannery (poster)
- 1855: Thomas Craig (poster)
- 1875: Francesco Cantelli (poster)
Died:
- 1836: Martin Bartels (poster)
- 1916: George Thom (poster)
- 1931: Vaclav Jerabek
- 1944: Peter Comrie (poster)
- 1962: Emil Artin (poster)
- 1984: Max Deuring (poster)
- 1988: Elizabeth Scott
- 2005: Raoul Bott (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Edwin Abbott Abbott
Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs ... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensions, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
