MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
19th September
Born:
- 1749: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre (poster)
- 1790: Charles Hughes Terrot (poster)
- 1840: Emory McClintock (poster)
- 1888: James Alexander (poster)
- 1889: Eustachy Żyliński (poster)
- 1895: Thomas Lumsden
- 1908: Marceli Stark (poster)
- 1914: Evgeny Sergeevich Lyapin (poster)
Died:
- 1843: Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (poster)
- 1958: Archibald Milne
- 1988: Patrick Moran
- 1995: Rudolf Peierls (poster)
- 2002: Etta Zuber Falconer (poster)
- 2010: Joseph Kruskal (poster)
- 2016: Boris Trakhtenbrot
Quotation of the day
From Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
The historian owes the dead nothing but the truth.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty