MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
17th September
Born:
- 1743: Marquis de Condorcet (poster)
- 1826: Bernhard Riemann (poster)
- 1903: Catherine Steele (poster)
- 1905: Hans Freudenthal (poster)
- 1910: Marshall Hall Jr (poster)
- 1918: David Gilbarg (poster)
- 1937: Moshé Flato (poster)
Died:
- 1877: Henry Fox Talbot (poster)
- 1891: Józeph Petzval (poster)
- 1970: Anton Dimitrija Bilimovic (poster)
- 1999: Leonard Carlitz (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Marquis de Condorcet
Ideas of uniformity, of regularity, please all minds, especially just minds. ... uniformity of measures can only displease those lawyers who fear to see the number of lawsuits diminished, and those traders who fear a loss of profit from anything which renders commercial transactions easy and simple ... A good law ought to be good for all men, as a good proposition in geometry is good for all men.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty