MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
22nd April
Born:
- 1592: Wilhelm Schickard (poster)
- 1811: Otto Hesse (poster)
- 1830: Thomas Hirst (poster)
- 1861: Emil Müller
- 1884: David Enskog (poster)
- 1887: Harald Bohr (poster)
- 1891: Harold Jeffreys (poster)
- 1903: Taro Morishima (poster)
- 1910: Norman Steenrod (poster)
- 1929: Michael Atiyah (poster)
- 1934: Ene-Margit Tiit
- 1935: Bhama Srinivasan (poster)
- 1946: Paul Davies
Died:
- 1945: Wilhelm Cauer (poster)
- 1945: Jacques Feldbau (poster)
- 1948: Herbert Richmond (poster)
- 2008: Tom Whiteside
Quotation of the day
From Michael Atiyah
The most useful piece of advice I would give to a mathematics student is always to suspect an impressive sounding Theorem if it does not have a special case which is both simple and non-trivial.
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty