1848 : Glaisher
1866 : Tauber
1930 : Frank Adams
1952 : Thomason
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1526 : Ferro
1800 : Ramsden
1879 : Maxwell
1934 : von Dyck
1981 : Mazur
Click here for a poster of James Clerk Maxwell and here for a poster of Walther von Dyck
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)
My soul is an entangled knot,
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marlinespike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying,
Wherein they fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite, unbouded homaloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.
The Life of James Clek Maxwell
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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