MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
30th December
Born:
- 1869: Emilie Martin (poster)
- 1897: Stanisław Saks (poster)
Died:
- 1691: Robert Boyle (poster)
- 1932: Eliakim Moore (poster)
- 1947: Alfred North Whitehead (poster)
- 1956: Heinrich Scholz (poster)
- 1978: Mark Aronovich Naimark (poster)
- 1982: Philip Hall (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Alfred North Whitehead
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is not use saying the nation is large .. How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce ... How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
