11th November

Mathematicians who were born or died on 11th November
Mathematicians born on this day:

1729 : Bougainville
1851 : Bertillon
1904 : Henry Whitehead
1905 : Kuroda

Mathematicians who died on this day:

1954 : Carslaw
1967 : Ford
1997 : Schiffer
2003 : Bolibrukh

Posters available   (Click on a link below)

Henry Whitehead Louis-Antoine de Bougainville Jacques Bertillon

A quotation for today

Henry Whitehead (1904 - 1960)

The British Mathematical Colloquium consists of three days of mathematics with no dogs and no wives.

Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)


Previous Day Today Next Day Whole year
Main Index Biographies Index
Birth and death statistics Quotations Posters
History Topics index Famous Curves index
Time lines Chronology Birthplace Maps
Search Form Mathematical Societies
JOC/EFR January 2013

The URL of this page is:

 School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews, Scotland
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Day_files/Day1111.html