MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
9th December
Born:
- 1667: William Whiston (poster)
- 1839: Gustav Roch (poster)
- 1883: Nikolai Luzin (poster)
- 1883: Aleksandr Nekrasov (poster)
- 1902: Hans Schwerdtfeger (poster)
- 1905: Emanuel Sperner (poster)
- 1906: Grace Hopper (poster)
- 1907: Max Deuring (poster)
- 1916: Irving John Good (poster)
- 1917: Sergei Fomin (poster)
Died:
- 1880: Oliver Byrne
- 1882: Li Shanlan (poster)
- 1938: James Pierpont
- 1949: Rolin Wavre
- 1958: John Jackson (poster)
- 2012: Vitaly Vitalievich Fedorchuk (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Nikolai Luzin
It seems the set of natural numbers is not an absolutely objective formation. It seems it is a function of the mind of the mathematician who happens to be speaking of a set of natural numbers at a given moment. It seems there are, among the problems of arithmetic, those that absolutely cannot be solved.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty