MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
21st January
Born:
- 1793: Théodore Olivier (poster)
- 1846: Pieter Hendrik Schoute (poster)
- 1860: David Eugene Smith (poster)
- 1874: René Baire (poster)
- 1897: Alexander Weinstein (poster)
- 1915: André Lichnerowicz (poster)
- 1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (poster)
- 1923: Henri Cabannes
Died:
- 1892: John Couch Adams (poster)
- 1931: Cesare Burali-Forti (poster)
- 1937: Donald Macmillan
- 1946: Harry Bateman (poster)
- 1957: Arthur Bowley (poster)
- 1974: Arnaud Denjoy (poster)
- 2004: John Lewis (poster)
Quotation of the day
From René Baire
Generally speaking, in the framework of ideas that here concern us, every problem in the theory of functions leads to certain questions in the theory of sets, and it is to the degree that these latter questions are resolved, that it is possible to solve the given problem more or less completely.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty