MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
25th October
Born:
- 1811: Évariste Galois (poster)
- 1886: Lester R Ford (poster)
- 1926: James Eells (poster)
Died:
- 1647: Evangelista Torricelli (poster)
- 1733: Giovanni Saccheri
- 1884: Alberto Castigliano (poster)
- 1905: Otto Stolz (poster)
- 1914: Wilhelm Lexis (poster)
- 1933: Albert Wangerin (poster)
- 1970: Edward Collingwood (poster)
- 1996: Ennio De Giorgi (poster)
- 1997: Mina Rees (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Évariste Galois
Since the beginning of the century, computational procedures have become so complicated that any progress by those means has become impossible, without the elegance which modern mathematicians have brought to bear on their research, and by means of which the spirit comprehends quickly and in one step a great many computations.
It is clear that elegance, so vaunted and so aptly named, can have no other purpose. ...
Go to the roots, of these calculations! Group the operations. Classify them according to their complexities rather than their appearances! This, I believe, is the mission of future mathematicians. This is the road on which I am embarking in this work.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty