MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
8th July
Born:
- 1760: Christian Kramp
- 1777: Daniel Hecht
- 1829: Robert Ferguson
- 1892: Torsten Carleman (poster)
- 1904: Henri Cartan (poster)
- 1915: Kenneth May
Died:
- 1390: Albert of Saxony
- 1695: Christiaan Huygens (poster)
- 1934: Édouard Benjamin Baillaud
- 1971: Kurt Reidemeister (poster)
- 1990: Ottó Steinfeld
- 1990: David Widder
- 2008: Sixto Ríos
- 2010: David Blackwell
Quotation of the day
From Torsten Carleman
... professors ought to be shot at the age of fifty.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty