MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
28th February
Born:
- 1552: Jost Bürgi (poster)
- 1735: Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde
- 1803: Christian Heinrich von Nagel (poster)
- 1859: Florian Cajori (poster)
- 1861: John Alison
- 1878: Pierre Fatou (poster)
- 1889: Hyman Levy
- 1894: Agnes Scott
- 1925: Louis Nirenberg (poster)
- 1954: Jean Bourgain (poster)
Died:
- 1742: Willem 'sGravesande (poster)
- 1863: Jakob Kulik (poster)
- 1932: Guillaume Bigourdan
- 1956: Frigyes Riesz (poster)
- 1991: Wassily Hoeffding (poster)
- 2014: Lee Lorch (poster)
- 2020: Freeman Dyson (poster)
Quotation of the day
From Florian Cajori
The best review of arithmetic consists in the study of algebra.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty