MacTutorMathematicians Of The Day
20th May
Born:
- 1861: Henry White *
- 1870: Robert de Montessus *
- 1874: Friedrich Hartogs *
- 1901: Machgielis Euwe *
- 1908: Hannes Alfvén *
- 1946: George Lusztig *
Died:
- 1782: William Emerson *
- 1798: Erland Bring *
- 1943: Henry White *
- 2010: Walter Rudin *
Quotation of the day
From Hannes Alfvén
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
[Pointing out the increasing specialization of science during the century to explain the resistance to his ideas]
Theorem of the day from Robin Whitty